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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