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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 802

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 802
Transliteration
l ys¹lm bn ʿqrb bn ḥmyn bn s²ḥtr bn zhrn bn grmʾl w wgd s¹fr ʾby f ng[ʿ] f h ʾṯʿ s¹lm
Translation
By Ys¹lm son of ʿqrb son of Ḥmyn son of S²ḥtr son of Zhrn son of Grmʾl and he found the writing of ʾby and {he was sad} and so O ʾṯʿ [grant] security

Interpretation

Commentary
There is a cartouche surrounding most of the inscription, and in the gap there is a series of lines and a Safaitic r.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Signs
Cartouche; lines

  • 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
#0021430
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