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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2640

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2640
Transliteration
l gnʾl bn ʾys¹ ḏ- ʾl ḍf w ḫrṣ ʾḫ -h s¹q[[]]m f h lt ns²l m s¹qm
Translation
By Gnʾl son of ʾys¹ of the lineage of Ḍf and he watched over his brother [who] {was sick} and so O Lt may that which causes sickness be removed

Interpretation

Commentary
The author has written a curve after the first q and then slightly rubbed it out. There are hammered dots over the inscription. For the translation see Al-Jallad 2015: 263.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
f two zig-zags
Technique
Scratched

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0023274
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