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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1603

Siglum
KRS 1603
Transliteration
l ḃn bn mḥlm h- ġlmt
Translation
By Ḃn son of Mḥlm is [the drawing of] the slave girl

Interpretation

Commentary
In the bottom left hand corner of the stone, below a horizontal line with 7 triangles along it. All four inscriptions on the rock claim the drawing.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Signs
Horizontal line with 7 triangles along it
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
#0022232
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