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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 903

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 903
Transliteration
l qdm bn ʿḏ bn wtr w wgd s¹fr ḫlflh s¹by f bky w wgm ʿl- mṭl w ʿl- nfr w ʿl- [[]] <<>> ṣḥr w dkr zn ḥrb nbt
Translation
By Qdm son of ʿḏ son of Wtr he found the writing of Ḫlflh a prisoner and so he cried and he grieved for Mṭl and for Nfr and for Ṣḥr and he remembered Zn [who] had been plundered nbt

Interpretation

Commentary
The author seems to have written ʿl twice before ṣḥr. The ʿ has been lightly scratched over but the l has been left untouched. It is possible that the text continues after the t and so the interpretation is doubtful. Note dkr where one expect ḏkr, a possible Aramaism ?

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & 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
#0021531
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