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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 229+228

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 229+228
Transliteration
l ḫll bn bṣy bn s¹r w wgd h- ʾṯr f ngʿ
Translation
By Ḫll son of Bṣy son of S¹r and he found the traces and so he grieved in pain

Interpretation

Commentary
The inscription runs vertically immediately in front of the horse and then curves to the right underneath the oryx.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Chiselled & incised

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 226-227; 230; 231 (other face)

  • 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
#0020857
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