KRS 2470
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 2470
- Transliteration
-
h yṯʿ s¹ʿd ḥbkn w tẓr ʾl s²bk w s¹lm ʾl ʿyl s¹nt ywn w tẓr mny
OCIANA
- Translation
-
O Yṯʿ help Ḥbkn and he was on the look out for [the people of] the lineage of S²bk and grant security to [the people of] the lineage of ʿyl the year of Ywn and he awaited Fate
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- There is a shadow over some of the letters of the middle of the inscription and they cannot be read from the photograph. The field copy however clearly reads ʾl s²bk w s¹lm in the middle. The n of the word s¹nt is written slightly above the other letters.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving edge/curving
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche around KRS 2470–2471; 7 circles
- 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
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0023103
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
by
OCIANA
Cite this Site
OCIANA,. 'KRS 2470.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/38878. Accessed: 05 Aug, 2025.