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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 881

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 881
Transliteration
l ġyr bn ʾs¹ḫr bn khl [bn] gnt w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr w ʿrg w ḫrs¹
Translation
By Ġyr son of ʾs¹ḫr son of Khl {son of} Gnt and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the writing and [inflict] lameness and dumbness

Interpretation

Commentary
There are 2 lines before the beginning of the inscription which are more deeply inscribed than the text. The drawing is of a female Bactrian camel

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Drawings
KRS 881 d/1

  • 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
#0021509
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