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KRS 165

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 165
Transliteration
l ---- lʿṯm bn s¹ʿd bn ḥg bn rb bn hmlk bn nhḍ bn ḥmyn bn ġḍḍt w h r{ḍ}{y} s¹lm
Translation
By ---- Lʿṯm son of S¹ʿd son of Ḥg son of Rb son of Hmlk son of Nhḍ son of Ḥmyn son of Ġḍḍt and O {Rḍy} [grant] security

Interpretation

Commentary
There are deep scratches over the beginning of the inscription and faint ones over the end. The author has inscribed two vertical lines for the ḍ of rḍy but no horizontal lines and the following y has only a very faint line closing the loop.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

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
#0020793
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