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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1703

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1703
Transliteration
l kn bn s²{k}rh bn gls¹ bn wʿr w dṯʾ {ʿ}rs¹ wḥd f ʾḏry
Translation
By Kn son of {s²krh} son of Gls¹ son of Wʿr and he spent the season of the later rains {exhausted} [and] alone and so ʾḏry

Interpretation

Commentary
The second letter of the second name is written by a crack but it seems most likely that a k should be read. The first letter of the word after dṯʾ might be a n as it is slightly longer than the dot of the other ʿ in the text. The inscription is directly hammered except for the last three letters which have been scratched possibly so that the author could fit them into the remaining space.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered/scratched

  • 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
#0022332
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