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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1586

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1586
Transliteration
l ʿzgd bn frʾn h- ẓlt wrd s¹nt ṣh
Translation
The shelter belongs to ʿzgd son of Frʾn he came to a watering-place the year of ṣh

Interpretation

Commentary
The first t is written to the side of the other letters and was presumably originally left out by the author. There is a slight protuberance on the line of the second h but it is probably a misdirected hammer mark rather than an attempt to change the letter.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered

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
#0022215
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