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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1640

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1640
Transliteration
l flṭt bn mrʾ bn ʿhd bn gḏly bn ʿbd bn whbn bn qmr w rʿy h- nḫl b- ḏkr f rḍw ġnmt h- s¹nt w fṣy m- s²nʾ
Translation
By Flṭt son of Mrʾ son of ʿhd son of Gḏly son of ʿbd son of Whbn son of Qmr and he pastured the valley when the sun was in Aquarius and Rḍw may there be booty this year and deliverance from enemies

Interpretation

Commentary
There are more recent wasms hammered over the first and fifth names of the inscription.

Provenance
Wādī Abyad
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Signs
Wusūm (later)
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
#0022269
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