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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 71

Siglum
KRS 71
Transliteration
l ṭrd bn mġyr bn ms¹k bn ʿmd bn ml[k]
Translation
By Ṭrd son of Mġyr son of Ms¹k son of ʿmd son of {Mlk}

Interpretation

Commentary
It is not possible to see the last letter on the photograph but it seems likely that the author of this inscription was the brother of the author of KRS 70 and that the name mlk should therefore be restored at the end.

Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
Site
Wādī Salmā, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0020699
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