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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1707

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1707
Transliteration
l hms¹k bn ts²ry w ḏkr ḥbb f h y{ṯ}ʿ nqm m- ḏ ḍʾw h- ḫṭṭ
Translation
By Hms¹k son of Ts²ry and he remembered a friend and so O Yṯʿ {exact vengeance} from whoever ḍʾw the carving

Interpretation

Commentary
One loop of the ṯ is rather doubtful. Part of the ḍ has been damaged but it is difficult to see what else it can be, even though its interpretation is difficult.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Signs
10 series of 7 lines
Associated Drawings
KRS 1707 d/1
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 1708 (first 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
Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum (12)
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0022336
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