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KRS 221

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 221
Transliteration
l ḥrṯt bn bʿḏh bn ghmt bn bs¹ʾ w wgm ʿl- ḥbb
Translation
By Ḥrṯt son of Bʿḏh son of Ghmt son of Bs¹ʾ and he grieved for a friend

Interpretation

Commentary
This text and KRS 222 are surrounded by a cartouche.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scraped

Associated Signs
Cartouche; 7 lines; 6 lines joined by a horizontal line through the middle
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
#0020849
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