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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 806

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 806
Transliteration
l{b}hlt bn yʿtt
Translation
By {Bhlt} son of Yʿtt

Interpretation

Commentary
The are between the initial l and the first letter of the first name is damaged, but the two are very close, which excludes the possibility that the latter is a s¹. It is possible thatr it could be a k, but it is more likely to be a b. Both bhlt and khlt are known.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
y circle a dot ʿ a dot
Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 803-805

  • 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
#0021434
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