KRS 2076

Siglum: KRS 2076
Alternative Sigla: SIJ 253-254
Transliteration: l s¹krn ----f bn ʾṯʿ h rḍy ġ{n}mt m- ḥwlt h- s¹trt h- s²rs¹
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Translation: By S¹krn ----f son of ʾṯʿ O Rḍy [grant] booty from Ḥwlt [to him belongs] the shelter [and he was present at] the rugged place
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: SIJ 253: l s¹krn bn {s¹wr bn} hf bn ʾṯʿ h- rḍy ġnmt SIJ 254: ...ḥwlt hs¹trths²rs¹ JSaf.N p. 112: reads the second half of SIJ 253+254: h rḍy ġlmt m- ḥwlt h- s¹trt h-s²r{t} "O Rḍw [grant] a young girl, from Ḥlt, the modest, the beautiful"
Commentary: This inscription and SIJ 255-256 (= KRS 2077-2078) were originally on a boulder which had cracked into three parts with SIJ 251-252 (= KRS 2079-2080), KRS 2081 (not read by SIJ), and SIJ 257-258. The bulldozers creating tracks for the oil exploration vehicles in 1989 broke up the boulder and the parts were scattered around. SIJ 257-258 were not found by the Rescue Survey. The letters of the first name have been joined up by carelessly carved ligatures. After this, the text was very heavily scored over and SIJ's reading of {s¹}{r} {b}{n} hf is not justified on the original. The third n is rather long and might have been extended later. After ġnmt, SIJ reads the letters as a separate text (SIJ 254) but the spacing of the letters indicates they should all be read as one text, as suggested by JSaf.N p. 112, although Jamme's interpretation is clearly wrong. It is unusual that the author did not place a connective before the beginning of the prayer and it is possible that he left out a connective or preposition in the last part of the text.

Associated Inscriptions

[JSaf.N] Jamme, A. Safaitic Notes (Commentary on JaS 44-176). [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1970.
[KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
[SIJ] Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.

Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA