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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1659

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1659
Transliteration
l ḫlf bn ms¹k w rʿ[y]
Translation
By Ḫlf son of Ms¹k and {he pastured}

Interpretation

Commentary
The last part of the inscription is too faint to be read from the photograph. It seems likely however that rʿy should be restored.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched & mul. scratched

Associated Signs
Cartouche with 9 lines attached to it around KRS 1658, 1659 and part of 1662
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
#0022288
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