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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1498

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1498
Transliteration
l drb bn ʾl{ʾ} bn hʾs¹ bn zgr
Translation
By Drb son of {ʾlʾ} son of Hʾs¹ son of Zgr

Interpretation

Commentary
The last letter of the second name seems to be an ʾ but a loop has been added to a line of one of the forks. The first and third letters of the last name are scratched in thin lines unlike the other letters of the text.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Signs
7 lines; circle with rays
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 1492-1497

  • 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
#0022127
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