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KRS 1604

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1604
Transliteration
{{l}} ḫmṯt w ʿṯrt hʿṯm ---- ġ{{l}}mt
Translation
{By} {Ḫmṯt} w ʿṯrt hʿṯm ---- {slave girl}

Interpretation

Commentary
Incised vertically immediately to the left of the woman's body. The rock is rubbed between the second m and the ġ. The l of the last word seems to have been changed to a s¹ as in KRS 1603. All four inscriptions on the rock claim the drawing.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 1602-1603; 1605

  • 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
#0022233
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