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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1539

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1539
Transliteration
l gwd bn ġnṯ bn hḏr w wgm ʿl- qdm bn ʾnʿm w wgd s¹fr ḥbl f [[]]h lt qbll ʾ- s¹lm w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
Translation
By Gwd son of Ġnṯ son of Hḏr and he grieved for Qdm son of ʾnʿm and he found the writing of Ḥbl and so O Lt let there be a safe reunion and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the writing

Interpretation

Commentary
The author made a mistake after the second f and then crossed it out.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched & scraped

Associated Signs
2 concentric circles with cross lines

  • 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
#0022168
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