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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 642

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 642
Transliteration
l ʾs¹n bn mkmd
Translation
By ʾs¹n son of Mkmd

Interpretation

Commentary
The ʾ is partly scratched over and hammered. There is a cartouche surrounding this inscription and KRS 643. The reading of the first name as ʾs¹n see the last two names in KRS 628, and the final name in KRS 643..

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
d loop is a dot
Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Signs
Cartouche around KRS 642–643; series of circles
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 633 (first face); 634 (second face); 635-641; 643

  • 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
#0021270
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