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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 89

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 89
Transliteration
[----] bn ys¹lm w rʿy [h-] ʾbl
Translation
[----] son of Ys¹lm and he pastured [the] camels

Interpretation

Commentary
The stone is broken at the beginning of the inscription. There is a line after the y which has been damaged at one end. It seems most likely that a h should be restored. There is a cartouche surrounding KRS 88 and part of this text.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Signs
Cartouche
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 86-88

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0020717
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