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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 799

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 799
Transliteration
l ḥddn bn {ṣ}ʿd bn lʿṯmn w wgm ʿl- ṣ[ʿ]d w ḫrṣ f h lt s¹lm w ʿwr ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
Translation
By Ḥddn son of {Ṣʿd} son of Lʿṯmn and he grieved for {Ṣʿd} and he kept watch and so O Lt [grant] security and blind whoever scratches out the writing

Interpretation

Commentary
The loop of the first ṣ and the whole of the fourth ʿ are covered by hammering. The name ṣʿd after wgm ʿl has been restored on the basis of other texts at this site whose authorst grieve for someone of that name, see KRS 801, 810, 813, 822, 829,and 831.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

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
#0021427
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