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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 859

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 859
Transliteration
l ʾʿlʿ bn mġny bn ʾʿdg bn nqm bn s¹wr bn ḥmyn bn ġḍḍt bn ʾnḍt bn ws²yt bn ḍf
Translation
By ʾʿlʿ son of Mġny son of ʾʿdg son of Nqm son of S¹wr son of Ḥmyn son of Ġḍḍt son of ʾnḍt son of Ws²yt son of Ḍf

Interpretation

Commentary
Although the name ʾʿlʿ has not been found before and it is tempting to emend it to ʾʿdg in line with the third name, the photograph shows that both examples of ʿ in the name are the same size and the third letter is clearly a l not a d.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

  • 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
#0021487
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