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KRS 1669

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1669
Transliteration
l ʿdy bn ʿnhm w tẓr ḥyt f hy ʾlh blh
Translation
By ʿdy son of ʿnhm and he was waiting for some animals and so O ʾlh blh

Interpretation

Commentary
The name and patronym of the author are chiselled and hammered and the statement and the prayer are scratched. There two hammered letters or marks between this text and KRS 1670 with possibly two scratched w's below them. They do not seem to belong to the text.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Name Distinguished
Direct hammered/scratched
Special Letter Forms
ʿ a dot; d loop a dot; y loop a dot
Technique
Direct hammered/scratched & mu

Associated Signs
Scratched lines
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 1670 (second face)

  • 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
#0022298
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