KRS 2842
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 2842
- Transliteration
- l bns¹nt bn ʾs¹ bn s¹lmyt w rʿy h- ḏryt nwy
- Translation
- By Bns¹nt son of ʾs¹ son of S¹lmyt and he pastured the stony desert whilst migrating
Interpretation
- Commentary
- For ḏryt perhaps compare Araabic ḏirā "desert, stony wilderness" (Groom 1983: 76).
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched & mul. scratched
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 2835-2836 (first face); 2837-2841 (second face); 2842
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Groom, N. A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames. A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary with an Arabic Glossary of Topographical Words and Placenames. London: Longman / Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0023476
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