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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1941

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1941
Transliteration
h blg s¹ʿd ykfl bn ʿrh
Translation
O Blg help Ykfl son of ʿrh

Interpretation

Commentary
There is a h on the edge of the rock after the r of the last name and it is possible the inscription continues on another face which was not photographed. A deity blg has not been encountered before in Safaitic.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Inscriptions

  • 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
#0022570
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