KRS 1985
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1985
- Transliteration
-
l ḥny bn s¹krn bn qḏy bn qdm bn mfny bn nʿmn w wgm ʿl- ḃny trḥ w rʿy h- ḍʾn f h lt s¹lm w qb{ḍ} h- s²nʾ
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- Translation
-
By Ḥny son of S¹krn son of Qḏy son of Qdm son of Mfny son of Nʿmn and he grieved for Bny who had died and he pastured the sheep and so O Lt [grant] security and {booty} from the enemy
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The fifth letter from the end has two cross-bars and three vertical lines. For this sense of qbḍ see qabaḍ in Lane p. 2483a.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving boustrophedon
- [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022614
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA,. 'KRS 1985.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/38432. Accessed: 16 Sep, 2025.