OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1862

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1862
Transliteration
l ḃnt bn gnʾl bn ḃnt ḏ- ʾl kn w dṯʾ [[]] s¹nt myt ʾdrm ḥrt f h lt s¹lm w ʿwr ḏ yʿwr
Translation
By Bnt son of Gnʾl son of Bnt of the lineage of Kn and he spent the season of the later rains [in] the Ḥarrah the year ʾdrm died and so O Lt may he be secure and blind whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Commentary
The author started to write a letter after dṯʾ and then scratched over it.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

  • 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
#0022491
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