KRS 838
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 838
- Transliteration
-
l ḥmrn bn wdʾl bn ngs² bn nḫr bn ġrb bn s¹lm w wgd ʾṯr ʾs²ʿ[y] [-h] w wgʿ
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- Translation
-
By Ḥmrn son of Wdʾl son of {Ngs²} son of Nḫr son of Ġrb son of S¹lm and found the traces of {his} {companions} and he was sorrowful
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The author appears to have made a mistake by writing the ʿ before the y in the penultimate word as, presumably, he intended to write ʾs²yʿ. There is a rock obscuring parts of the word and only some lines of the loop of the y are visible and only one line of the h.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- [KRS] 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021466
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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