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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1868

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1868
Transliteration
l <ʿ>rmʾl bn ṣyd bn ʾs¹ bn qlb w rʿy h- ḍʾn f h lt s¹lm wqyt m- bʾs¹
Translation
By ʿrmʾl son of Ṣyd son of ʾs¹ son of Qlb and he pastured the sheep and so O Lt [grant] security of protection from despair

Interpretation

Commentary
The first letter is a small circle which is the same size as the ʿs in the text. The name ʿrmʾl however is not attested and it seems likely grmʾl was intended.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Signs
8 lines

  • 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
#0022497
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