KRS 3137

Interpretation

Commentary: There are ligatures joining several of the letters some of which are carelessly written and obscured by hammering. There is a line joining the initial l to the following letter which has been read as an ʿ. It is possible that the third letter should be read as a d. There is some hammering above the second n. It seems likely that the second b has been joined to the preceding letters by a line going through the middle and the following n joined to the arms of the letter giving it the appearance of a w. The name ʿmʾt however is not previously attested. The next two letters might be a b and n joined together giving it the appearance of a w or maybe as above it should be read as a w and lwḏ read as a verb. The translation of lmn at the end is problematic and even though it runs directly on from the ḏ perhaps it should be read as a separate text l mn "By Mn".

Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here