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Akkermans & Brüning 2000: Fig. 25

Text Information

Siglum
Akkermans & Brüning 2000: Fig. 25
Transliteration
l hs¹yb bn ḏkr bn qmhz bn kn bn {ḥ}---- bn fḍg w ḥwr
Translation
By Hs¹yb son of Ḏkr son of Qmhz son of Kn son of Ḥ---- son of Fḍg and he wept with grief

Interpretation

Commentary
The stone appears to be damaged at the bottom left hand corner making the reading of the fifth name uncertain. The inscription was recorded as part of the Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project and was published in Akkermans & Brüning 2020: 208, Fig. 25

Provenance
The stone is built into the base of a ‘ring cairn’

Associated Signs
Two sets of 7 dots
Associated Remains
The stone is built into the base of a ‘ring cairn’

  • Akkermans, P.M.M.G. & Brüning, M.L. East of Azraq: settlement, burial and chronology from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age and Iron Age in the Jebel Qurma region, Black Desert, north-east Jordan. Pages 185–216 in P.M.M.G. Akkermans (ed.), Landscapes of Survival: The archaeology and epigraphy of Jordan's north-eastern desert and beyond. Leiden: Sidestone, 2020.
Site
Ǧabal Qarmah area, Site QUR-98, Al-Zarqāʾ Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Grieving
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0057248
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