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KRS 926

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 926
Transliteration
l ʿd{y} bn ʿnhm w s¹wq mdbrt w wgd ʾṯr mlk f wlh
Translation
By {ʿdy} son of ʿnhm he drove [the animals] [to] the inner desert and he found inscription of Mlk and so he was distraught with grief

Interpretation

Commentary
The circle of the y has been filled in with hammering and there is some hammering at the other end of the line of the letter as though someone intended to change the letter to a ṣ.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 927-928 (second face)

  • 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
#0021554
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