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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1501

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1501
Transliteration
l ʾys¹ bn trṣ bn ḃnt ḏ- ʾl ms¹kt w ʾs²rq s¹nt ḫl{ṣ}t
Translation
By ʾys¹ son of Trṣ son of Bnt of the lineage of Ms¹kt and he journeyed to the inner desert the year of {Ḫlṣt}

Interpretation

Commentary
The loop of the second ṣ is damaged. There is a lightly scratched ḏ between the r and ṣ which is not part of the inscription.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised/chiselled

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
#0022130
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