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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 49

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 49
Transliteration
l qdm bn ghm w wgd ʾṯr ʾs²yʿ -h bḏ {m}{l}{f} f t{ṯ}ql
Translation
By Qdm son of Ghm and he found the inscription of his companions bḏ {m}{l}{f} and so t{ṯ}ql

Interpretation

Commentary
The third m is slightly damaged and the following l has a small kink at one end which, if intentional, means the letter could be a ġ. One loop of the third letter from the end is only enclosed by a very faint line and it is possible it should be read as a ṣ.

Provenance
Wādī Salmā
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
f has one zig-zag
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
#0020677
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