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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 931

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 931
Transliteration
l kʿm[[h]] bn ġṯ w wgd s¹fr ḥbb f wgm
Translation
By {Kʿmh} son of Ġṯ and he found the writing of a friend and so he grieved

Interpretation

Commentary
The author carved a ḫ after the m of the first name and then seems to have corrected his mistake by inscribing multiple lines over a prong and one line to form a h.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched & mul. 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
#0021559
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