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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 944

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 944
Transliteration
l ṣʿd bn rkbt bn yṯʿ bn ʾs¹ḫr w wgd s¹fr m---- h lt {ʿ}{w}r l- ḏ y{ʿ}{w}{r} h- ḫṭṭ
Translation
By Ṣʿd son of Rkbt son of Yṯʿ son of ʾs¹ḫr and he found [the] writing of m---- O Lt {blindness} to whoever {scratches out} the carving

Interpretation

Commentary
After the word s¹fr the inscription is rather faint. The w of the word yʿwr appears originally to have been omitted as it is written slightly above the other letters.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 945 (second face and first 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
#0021572
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