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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1164

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1164
Transliteration
l mġṯ bn gnʾl w wrd f ny tl ḫms¹ m- nmrt f h bʿls¹mn [[]] [[]] [[]] [[]] rwḥ
Translation
By Mġṯ son of Gnʾl and he came to a watering-place f ny tl ḫms¹ m- nmrt and so O Bʿls¹mn [grant] relief from adversity and uncertainty

Interpretation

Commentary
The passage between wrd and the prayer is difficult to interpret. It seems unlikely that nmrt here refers to al-Namārah since this always appears as h-nmrt in Safaitic. The author wrote mrwḥ after the deity's name and then crossed the letters out and wrote the word rwḥ next to them.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
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
#0021792
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