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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 268

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 268
Transliteration
l s²rw bn flṭl h- dr w ʾn ʾtm bn s²rw
Translation
S²rw son of Flṭl was here and I am ʾtm son of S²rw

Interpretation

Commentary
For a discussion of these rare texts which record that they were carved by someone other than the “author”, see Al-Jallad 2015: 5–6, 95

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Signs
Cartouche around this inscription and KRS 266–267
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 264-265 (other face); 266-267

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0020896
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