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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 72

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 72
Transliteration
l mġyr bn ṭrd bn mġyr bn ms¹k bn ʿm[d]
Translation
By Mġyr son of Ṭrd son of Mġyr son of Ms¹k son of {ʿmd}

Interpretation

Commentary
The last letter is not clear on the photograph but it seems likely that the author is a son of the author of KRS 71 and that the name ʿmd should therefore be restored.

Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 70-71

  • 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
#0020700
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