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KRS 3235

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 3235
Transliteration
l ġṯ bn ʿḏn bn hʾs¹ bn ḥrs¹ bn ġṯ bn yʿly h- ʿn
Translation
By Ġṯ son of ʿḏn son of Hʾs¹ son of Ḥrs¹ son of Ġṯ son of Yʿly is the ass

Interpretation

Commentary
There is a drawing of an equid and rider. The rock is chipped obscuring the head of the animal. The drawing does not look very much like an ass, but cf. Arabic ʿānah "a she-ass" (Lane 2204a), which in Safaitic may have had a masculine form *ʿān.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Signs
7 lines; circle with rays
Associated Drawings
KRS 3235 d/1

  • 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
#0023873
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