KRS 2782
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 2782
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹ bn brny w ḥqqt -h ʾ- s¹my s¹nt s¹lḫ tn b- ḍft rʿy h lt w ds²r ḫlṣt w ts²wq ʾl- ḥbbt -h
- Translation
- By ʾs¹ son of Brny and the rains reached him the year s¹lḫ tn b- ḍft rʿy O Lt and Ds²r may he have his special friend and he yearned for his [female] beloved
Interpretation
- Commentary
- For ḥqqt -h ʾ-s¹my cf Arabic ḥaqqatnī al-šams "the sun reached me" (Lane p. 606c) For ḫlṣt cf. Arabic ḫālisah "[a man's] paricular or special friend", "[a man's] companion, or associate, who converses ... with him" (Lane p.786a).
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Letter Forms
- s²'s single zig-zag
- Technique
- Scratched
- 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
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0023416
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