KRS 2640
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 2640
- Transliteration
- l gnʾl bn ʾys¹ ḏ- ʾl ḍf w ḫrṣ ʾḫ -h s¹q[[]]m f h lt ns²l m s¹qm
- Translation
- By Gnʾl son of ʾys¹ of the lineage of Ḍf and he watched over his brother [who] {was sick} and so O Lt may that which causes sickness be removed
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The author has written a curve after the first q and then slightly rubbed it out. There are hammered dots over the inscription. For the translation see Al-Jallad 2015: 263.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Letter Forms
- f two zig-zags
- Technique
- Scratched
- 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
- #0023274
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