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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
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

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.

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
#0021466
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