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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 379

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 379
Transliteration
l nhb bn s¹ʿd bn ġyrʾl bn s¹krn bn zkr bn ẓnʾl bn s¹b w wgd ʾṯr zkr ʿm -h f ngʿ
Translation
By Nhb son of S¹ʿd son of Ġyrʾl son of S¹krn son of Zkr son of Ẓnʾl son of S¹b and he found the inscription of Zkr his great great grandfather and so he was sad

Interpretation

Commentary
This text is a good illustration of how the word ʿm in Safaitic can mean “grandfather” or “ancestor beyond grandfather”. Cf. KRS 378.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

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
#0021007
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