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KRS 1141

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1141
Transliteration
l s¹ny bn ṣʿd bn ḍb bn ʿbd bn ʾdm bn ms¹k w wgd ʾṯr s¹ny w mṣry w nẓrʾl w ʿbd w ṣʿd w ml{k} w mġn{y} w mʿn w {ḍ}b ʿm -h ḍlln f qṣf
Translation
By S¹ny son of Ṣʿd son of Ḍb son of ʿbd son of ʾdm son of Ms¹k and he found the traces of S¹ny and Mṣry and Nẓrʾl and ʿbd and Ṣʿd and {Mlk} and Mġny and Mʿn and {Ḍb} his grandfather [all of whom] had died and so he was filled with sadness

Interpretation

Commentary
Some of the letters are damaged by hammermarks but the readings are more or less certain. The phrase f qṣf is scratched more lightly than the rest of the text.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

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
#0021769
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