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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 338

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 338
Transliteration
l tm bn mfny bn nʿmn bn whb bn s¹b h- ḫṭṭ w ḫrṣ s²nʾ f h lt s¹lm w nqʾt l- ḏ yʿwr
Translation
By Tm son of Mfny son of Nʿmn son of Whb son of S¹b is the carving and he was on the look-out for enemies and so O Lt [grant] security and [inflict] ejection from the grave on whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Commentary
The inscription starts in large well chiselled letters running around the drawing of a horseman spearing a gazelle. However, after ḫṭṭ the inscription is continued in tiny incised letters above the horse's head.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Chiselled/scratched

Associated Signs
A hammered dotted cartouche around parts of the text
Associated Drawings
KRS 338 d/1
Associated Inscriptions

  • 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
#0020966
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