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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