KRS 2769
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 2769
- Transliteration
- l nṣr bn s¹mr w rʿy w s¹rḥ s¹fnt
- Translation
- By Nṣr son of S¹mr and he pastured and drove [the animals] to pasture by themselves [in] a wind
Interpretation
- Commentary
- For s¹rḥ see Arabic sarraḥa "he sent forth [the animals] to pasture by themselves" (Lane p. 1344c). For s¹fnt see Arabic sāfinah "a wind that blows upon the surface of the earth, a wind" (Lane 1375c).
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche around KRS 2769–2771
- Associated Inscriptions
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0023403
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