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KRS 144

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 144
Transliteration
l qʿṣn bn nẓr bn s¹ḫr w wgd ʾṯr dd [[-h]] w [n]gʿ
Translation
By Qʿṣn son of Nẓr son of S¹ḫr and he found the inscription of {his} paternal uncle and {he was sad}

Interpretation

Commentary
The author forgot one of the d's of dd and wrote it slightly below the other letters. He also wrote an ʾ after the word dd and then changed the letter to a h. There are two equally possible restorations of the text at the end. The author has either omitted the n of ngʿ as suggested above or he has left out a w intending to write w wgʿ "and he was sorrowful". There is a series of lines on another face of the rock.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Inscriptions

  • 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
#0020772
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