OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1885

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1885
Transliteration
l mġyr bn ms¹k bn ʿmd bn mlk bn qḥs² bn ḥḍg bn s¹mr h- dmyt w h lt s¹lm w mḥlt l- ḏ yʿwr h- ḫṭṭ
Translation
By Mġyr son of Ms¹k son of ʿmd son of Mlk son of Qḥs² son of Ḥḍg son of S¹mr is the drawing and O Lt may he be secure and [cause] dearth of pasture to whoever scratches out the carving

Interpretation

Commentary
The r of the name smr is facing in the opposite direction to the following part of the text.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Drawings
KRS 1885 d/1

  • 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
#0022514
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