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KRS 247

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 247
Transliteration
l qdm bn s¹wdn bn mʿz bn ṯlm w ḫrṣ h- ʾbl m- mdbr f h s²ʿhqm s¹lm ----ths¹
Translation
By Qdm son of S¹wdn son of Mʿz son of Ṯlm and he was on the look out for the camels from the inner desert and so O S²ʿhqm [grant] security ----ths¹

Interpretation

Commentary
The text after the m of s²ʿhqm is written on an adjacent face and is rather faint.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

  • 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
#0020875
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