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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 13

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 13
Transliteration
l ḫlṣ bn wd bn ʿqrb bn {f}hs² w wgd ʾṯr ghm ḫl -h f {b}{ʾ}s¹ mẓll
Translation
By Ḫlṣ son of Wd son of ʿqrb son of {Fhs²} and he found traces of Ghm his maternal uncle and for those who remain {despair}

Interpretation

Commentary
The first letter of the fourth name that has been read as a f is a wavy line rather than a zig-zag. The letter read as a b after the second f has an additional line and one fork of the ʾ is doubtful.

Provenance
Wādī Salmā
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

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
#0020641
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