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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