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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 102

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 102
Transliteration
l ġṯ bn ʾs²ym bn ṣn w tẓr ʾ- my f rḍw rḥ w rḍw ʿwr ḏ yʿwr
Translation
By Ġṯ son of ʾs²ym son of Ṣn and he was on the look-out for the water and so Rḍw [grant] {relief} from adversity and uncertainty and Rḍw blind whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Commentary
The author has written rgḥ rather than rwḥ after the first instance of rḍw.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 103 (other face)

  • 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
#0020730
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