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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 456

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 456
Transliteration
l frhz bn grmʾl bn frhz bn ms¹k bn khl bn hwd bn tm bn ġlmt ḏ- ʾl kkb w wgm ----s²lh f h lt w ds²[r] w [b]ʿls¹mn wʾl m- bʾs¹
Translation
By Frhz son of Grmʾl son of Frhz son of Ms¹k son of Khl son of Hwd son of Tm son of Ġlmt of the lineage of Kkb and he grieved ----s²lh and so O Lt and {Ds²r} and {Bʿls¹mn} [grant] an escape from grief

Interpretation

Commentary
The text between wgm and the letters s²lh is not in the photograph.The author appears to have missed out the last letter of ds²r and the first letter of bʿls¹mn. There is a cartouche surrounding part of this inscription and KRS 457.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
s² of ds²r zig-zag
Technique
Scratched

Associated Signs
Cartouche around KRS 456–457
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
#0021084
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