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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 130

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 130
Transliteration
l {{h}}dn {{b}}{{n}} {{s¹}}{{h}}m {{b}}{{n}} qḥs² bn ml{{k}} w ḏ{{k}}{{r}} {{b}}n{{-h}} f tʿql
Translation
By {Hdn} {son of} {s¹hm} {son of} Qḥs² son of {Mlk} and {he remembered} {his} {son} and so was unable to speak

Interpretation

Commentary
Several of the letters have been altered with the addition of thin lines. The first and second h's have been changed into ʾ's; lines have been added to the b's and n's of the first and second bn's; the s¹ of the second name has been changed into a ḥ by the addition of a middle line; the l of the fourth name has been turned into a h; the following k and that of the next word have a line joining the inner arm of the crossbar and the bottom of the curve; the next letter is a r with the two arms joined by a line; the following b has been changed into a h and the h after the following n has been altered to a y by the addition of a line across the forks.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Features
Addition of lines
Technique
Incised & scratched

  • 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
#0020758
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