KRS 2340
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 2340
- Transliteration
- l ʾnhk bn mġyr bn ḥlk bn ḫld bn mġyr ḏ- ʾl ms¹kt w ndm ʿl- ʾb -h w ʿl- ʾdwd -h ʾrbʿt rġm mny w ʿl- ʾḫwl -h ʾrbʿt f rġm mny f h lt w h ds²r s¹ḥqt rhṭ ks¹ṭ w ḏkr tmnh ʾbn fs¹ky
- Translation
- By ʾnhk son of Mġyr son of Ḥlk son of Ḫld son of Mġyr of the lineage of Ms¹kt and he was devastated by grief on account of his father and on account of his four paternal uncles struck down by Fate and on account of his four maternal uncles and so he was struck down by Fate and so O Lt and O Ds²r may the kinsfolk of Ks¹ṭ be crushed and he remembered Tmnh ʾbn Fs¹ky
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The translation is that in Al-Jallad 2015: 263.On the so far unique occurrence of ʾbn where one would expect bn (at the end of the inscription) see Al-Jallad 2015: 52
- Provenance
- Khallat ʿAnazah
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 2341 (second face)
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022971
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