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KRS 2573

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2573
Transliteration
l ḥnn bn rb bn nhḍ bn ṭhm h- tll w rʿy h- ʾbl f h gdḍf s¹lm w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr [[]] mʿl ḥwq w ḏ ykfʾ
Translation
By Ḥnn son of Rb son of Nhḍ son of Ṭhm are the words and he pastured the camels and so O Gdḍf [grant] security and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out because of jealousy and whoever turns [it] over

Interpretation

Commentary
The author has inscribed a letter possibly a h after the r of yʿwr and then slightly crossed it out. For the translation of mʿl ḥwq see Al-Jallad 2015: 152.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Signs
7 lines; 8 lines; circle with rays
Associated Drawings
KRS 2573 d/1
Associated Inscriptions

  • 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
#0023207
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