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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2397

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2397
Transliteration
l ys¹lm b[n] ----m bn wd bn s¹r ḏ- ʾl ms¹kt w rʿy h- ʾbl f h lt s¹lm w ts²wq f h lt s¹{l}m
Translation
By Ys¹lm {son of} ----m son of Wd son of S¹r of the lineage of Ms¹kt and he pastured the camels and so O Lt may he be secure and he yearned and so O Lt [{may he be secure}

Interpretation

Commentary
The letters after the b of the first bn are damaged. The penultimate letter is rather short and slightly damaged. Next to the beginning of the text there appears to be a l and y covered by some lines which is presumably a false start at the inscription.

Provenance
Jordan

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
#0023028
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