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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 291

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 291
Transliteration
l ʿn bn s²hyt bn ʾs¹ bn ḥg w dṯʾ f h lt s¹lm w---- nqʾt ---- ʿwr mʿ----
Translation
By ʿn son of S²hyt son of ʾs¹ son of Ḥg and he spent the season of the later rains and so O Lt [grant] security w---- [inflict] ejection from the grave---- scratches out mʿ----

Interpretation

Commentary
The end of the inscription is damaged and nothing further is legible.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 287-290 (other face); 292 (third face)

  • 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
#0020919
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