OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 259

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 259
Transliteration
l ġṯ bn ġṯ bn hnʾl bn [[ẓ]]nnʾl bn ʾḥlm w ʿwr l- ḏ ʿwr h- tll
Translation
By Ġṯ son of Ġṯ son of Hnʾl son of Ẓnnʾl son of ʾḥlm and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the words

Interpretation

Commentary
It looks as though part of an ʾ was written at the beginning of the fourth name and then incorporated into one of the lines of the ẓ.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Name Distinguished
Rocking blade/incised
Technique
Rocking-blade & incised

  • 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
#0020887
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