KRS 3029

Siglum: KRS 3029
Transliteration: {l} s¹ʿd bn ʾnʿm bn hmlk bn n{h}{ḍ} w tẓr ḏ mny f h rḍw fṣy m- bʾs¹ s¹ʿd h- ḍfy
Translation: {By} S¹ʿd son of ʾnʿm son of Hmlk son of {Nhḍ} and he awaited Fate and so O Rḍw [send] deliverance from despair [and] help the Ḍfite

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: MNH p. 345 n. 269: on the occurrence of rḍw with h- ḍfy.
Commentary: The initial l is on the edge of the rock and is slightly doubtful and the second and third letter of the fourth name are worn and uncertain. The name nhḍ is read on the basis of ʾnʿm bn hmlk bn nhḍ in WH 845 and hmlk bn nhḍ in KRS 218. It seems likely the author left out a w before s¹ʿd. For the interprtetation of ḏ in of tẓr ḏ mny see Al-Jallad 2015: 84–85, though the translations here differs from the one there.

Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
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Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].