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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1281

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1281
Transliteration
l s¹ʿd bn ḥy bn ṣbḥ bn ḥy bn gnʾl bn whb bn s¹b w wgd s¹fr ʾs¹lm nhb f ġḍ ʿl- ʾs²yʿ -h f hy lt s¹lm ----
Translation
By S¹ʿd son of Ḥy son of Ṣbḥ son of Ḥy son of Gnʾl son of Whb son of S¹b and he found the writing of ʾs¹lm nhb and so he grieved for his companions and so O Lt may he be secure ----

Interpretation

Commentary
There is a step in the rock between ʾs¹lm and nhb and it is possible that a w was inscribed very lightly because of the awkwardness of the surface or simply left out. The letter after the ḍ is more like a r. There are some further letters on another face of the rock which it is not possible to read with certainty from the photograph. They might be a continuation of this text and might read ḥlʾ or possibly ẓlʾ.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
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
#0021910
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