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KRS 1622

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1622
Transliteration
l mʿd b{n} {ḫ}{l} b{n} ʾ{l}b
Translation
By Mʿd {son of} {Ḫl} {son of} {ʾlb}

Interpretation

Commentary
The above is one possible interpretation of the inscription as the letters are crudely hammered and the author appears to have attempted to join them together. The circular shape after the fourth letter is probably a b and n joined together. The next letter might be a ḫ or a t and the following line a l attached to a b. The next letter is probably a n with a hammer mark attaching it to the back of the d. After the ʾ there is a straight line, possibly a l, joined slightly to one fork of the ʾ and then joined to the next letter which is a b.

Provenance
Wādī Abyad
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
#0022251
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