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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1607

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1607
Transliteration
l r----{f}{ʾ}l h- nʿm
Translation
By {R----fʾl} is [the drawing of] the ostriches

Interpretation

Commentary
The text is in the top left hand corner of the face just above KRS 1606. After the first two letters there is a considerable amount of scratching which could cover one letter after which the traces of what could be a f and a ʾ can be made out.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scraped scratched & incised

Associated Drawings
KRS 1607 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
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0022236
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