KRS 2224
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 2224
- Transliteration
-
h s²ʿn[ʿ]r s¹ʿd ʿwḏ w {l}nm ʿl- ḏ mlg -h
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- Translation
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O {S²ʿnʿr} help ʿwḏ w {lnm} ʿl ḏ mlg -h
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The thirteenth letter has short arms and it is possible that it should be read as a r. It would however be a different shape to the other r in the text which is a slight curve. The other l's in the text have one hook and it is possible that the bottom hook of this letter is simply the result of the careless hammering technique used to carve the inscription. The letter read as a g has a hammered dot on one side of the circle. The divine name s²ʿnʿr occurs in KRS 36. There is no clear second ʿ in the name here although possibly a small hammered dot above the preceding n is intended to be one and was added later having been left out. If that was the case the name should be read s²ʿn + ʿ + r.
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- Special Letter Forms
- ʿ's a dot
- Technique
- Direct hammered
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022853
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16 Sep, 2024
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