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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 839

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 839
Transliteration
---- bn ws²yt bn ḍf w nṣ---- [n]qʾt l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr w wgm ʿl- ḥbb w ḥll h- dr
Translation
---- son of Ws²yt son of Ḍf w nṣ---- {ejection from the grave} to whoever scratches out the inscription and he grieved for a friend and he camped here

Interpretation

Commentary
The first and middle parts of the inscription are not visible on the photograph as they are partly coveredby another rock and partly by an encrustation.

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
#0021467
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