KRS 147
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 147
- Transliteration
- l s²rk bn s¹ḫr bn s²rk bn ġyrʾl bn ms²ʿr w wgd ʾṯr {ʿ}m -h f ngʿ f h lt s¹lm
- Translation
- By S²rk son of S¹ḫr son of S²rk son of Ġyrʾl son of Ms²ʿr and he found the traces of his {grandfather} and so he was sad and so O Lt [grant] security
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The ʿ of the word ʿm is doubtful. It seems likely that the author wrote the ʿ after the r of ʾṯr and then realising that he did not have enough room to complete the inscription continued above. However, the photograph is not good enough to be certain of this interpretation.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- 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
- #0020775
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