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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 783

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 783
Transliteration
l ʿmr bn ḥrb bn grf bn ʾs¹wr h- gml w h- ḥyt
Translation
By ʿmr son of Ḥrb son of Grf son of ʾs¹wr are [the drawing of] the male camel and the animals

Interpretation

Commentary
The inscription begins in faint letters just behind the camel's hump and ends just above the beginning where it runs onto an adjacent face. There do not appear to be any other animals on the stone so one might question the traditional interpretation of ḥyt as "animals" here.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Signs
7 lines
Associated Drawings
KRS 783 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
#0021411
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