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KRS 115

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 115
Transliteration
l mkyr bn mqm bn yṣmr w wgm ʿl- ṯbn w ṣyr mn- ʾ- ʿrḍ
Translation
By Mkyr son of Mqm son of Yṣmr and he grieved for Ṯbn and he returned to a watering place from the valley

Interpretation

Commentary
On the ʾ- definite article see Al-Jallad 2015: 16.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
y with line going through the circle
Technique
Incised

Associated Signs
7 lines
Associated Inscriptions

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0020743
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