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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 117

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 117
Transliteration
l ḥrb bn mḥlm bn ḥrb bn ʾdm bn ḥḍg bn s¹wr bn ḥmyn bn ġḍḍt w ġzz b- ʾbl f h lt s¹lm m- h- ʾs¹d w ġnmt w nqʾt l- ḏ yʿwr
Translation
By Ḥrb son of Mḥlm son of Ḥrb son of ʾdm son of Ḥḍg son of S¹wr son of Ḥmyn son of Ġḍḍt and he was on a raid with camels and so O Lt [grant] security from the lion and [grant] booty and [inflict] ejection from the grave on whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Signs
Zig-zag lines

  • 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
#0020745
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