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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 321

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 321
Transliteration
l mʿḍ bn zwr {{w}} {{w}}{{g}}m ʿm f ʿm f n{{ẓ}}r mny w ʿwr m ʿwr h rḍw
Translation
By Mʿḍ son of Zwr {and} {he} {grieved} year after year and so {he} {awaited} fate and blind whoever scratches out [the inscription] O Rḍw

Interpretation

Commentary
The letters w wg have been filled in with hammering and the ẓ of nẓr has been changed to a w. The first part of the text is directly hammered and the curse is scratched on the rock.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Features
Ligatures & infilling
Special Letter Forms
y loop is a dot
Technique
Direct hammered/scratched

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 304-312 (other face); 313-320; 322; 323 (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
#0020949
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