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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1846

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1846
Transliteration
l mʿn bn ġlmt bn mtn bn ḥny bn ms¹k w ḥll h- dr [[]] h lt s¹lm w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr mʿl ḥwq
Translation
By Mʿn son of Ġlmt son of Mtn son of Ḥny son of Ms¹k and he camped here O Lt may he be secure and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out from jealousy

Interpretation

Commentary
The letter after the word dr and before the prayer has been erased but no other letter has replaced it. It is possible there is another letter crossed out before the w of ʿwr. For the translation of mʿl ḥwq see Al-Jallad 2015: 152, 323.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Drawings
KRS 1846 d/1
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 1842-1845; 1847-1849

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0022475
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