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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 33

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 33
Transliteration
l s²gʾ bn s²ḥtr bn ʾḥtr w ḍbʾ f ġnm w ẓmʾ
Translation
By S²ġʾ son of S²ḥtr son of ʾḥtr and he was on a raid and so he gained booty but suffered from thirst

Interpretation

Commentary
The n of the second bn is a small dash inscribed near the back of the curve of the b.

Provenance
Wādī Salmā
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
ḍ has only one horizontal line
Technique
Scratched

  • 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
#0020661
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