KRS 900
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 900
- Transliteration
- l nʿmn bn gnʾl bn ḥy bn ṣbḥ w wgd ʾṯr qymt w ʾṯr ṣʿd f ngʿ w rʿy h- ʾbl f wrd mgm----tbṭ f wrd h- nmrt f wr{d} ʾng w rb{t}----
- Translation
- By Nʿmn son of Gnʾl son of Ḥy son of Ṣbḥ and he found the traces of Qymt and the traces of Ṣʿd and so he grieved in pain and he pastured the camels and he watered at mgm----tbṭ and then he watered at al-Namārah and the {he watered at} ----
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The letters mgm are written on the edge of the rock and it is unclear from the photograph whether there are further letters on another face or whether the t is the next letter of the text. After ʾng the text is written on another face and is extremely faint.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- 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
- #0021528
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