OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1583

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1583
Transliteration
l ʾs¹l bn md mdn
Translation
By ʾs¹l son of Md [is the drawing of] a lion

Interpretation

Commentary
The second m is written under the belly of a feline and the last two letters are written on the other side of a crack in the rock.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Drawings
KRS 1583 d/1
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
#0022212
Download Images