KRS 3288
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 3288
- Transliteration
-
l grmn w rʿy h- ʾbl f- h- nḫl w wrd h- ġrbt
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- Translation
-
By Grmn and he pastured the camels in the valley and he came to a watering-place at the reservoir
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The rock was brought to camp from line 21 VP 1222, and then taken to Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum. For the interpretation of ġrbt cf. Arabic ġarb "a reservoir from which water is distributed" (Groom 1983: 93).
- Editio Princeps
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- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 3289-3290 (first face); 3292-3293
- 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.
- [KRS] 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
- Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum (5)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0023929
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16 Sep, 2024
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