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KRS 2342

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2342
Transliteration
l ḫṭs¹t bn ms¹k bn ḫṭs¹t bn s¹krn bn zkr ḏ- ʾl ḍf w ts²wq ʾl- ḫll f h lt s¹lm w q[[]][[]]bll <<>> ts²wq w ḥḍr s¹nt ws¹q ʿbdrbʾl lḥyn
Translation
By Ḫṭs¹t son of Ms¹k son of Ḫṭs¹t son of S¹krn son of Zkr of the lineage of Ḍf and he longed for Ḫll and so O Lt [grant] security and a reunion of loved ones he yearned and he stayed near a permanent source of water the year ʿbdrbʾl confronted Lḥyn

Interpretation

Commentary
The author has written a b and a ʾ or possibly a ṣ after the q of qbll and then the letters have been lightly scratched over. After the second l of qbll there is a straight line with a kink in it which is presumably extraneous.

Provenance
Khallat ʿAnazah
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

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
#0022973
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