KRS 269
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 269
- Transliteration
- l mrt bn hls¹ w ḍbʾ h lt ġnmt w s¹lm ʿl- ġnm -h
- Translation
- By Mrt son of Hls¹ and he was on a raid O Lt [grant] booty and [grant] security for his spoil
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Ġnm could also be translated from ġanam "sheep", i.e. presumably the sheep he had left when he went on the raid.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche crossed by 7 lines; 7 lines
- 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
- #0020897
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