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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