OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 775

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 775
Transliteration
l mrʾ bn s¹ʿd w rʿy w ngʿ ʿl- ḥr
Translation
By Mrʾ son of S¹ʿd and he pastured and he sought for pasture on stony tracts [or: he grieved in pain for Ḥr]

Interpretation

Commentary
The second n is a rather rough line. The author appears to have left out the second l and written it to the side of the ʿ and ḥ.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
ʿ a dot
Technique
Direct hammered

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
#0021403
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