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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2698

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2698
Transliteration
l s¹ny bn bṣy bn s¹r bn ẓnnʾl bn ġṯ bn qs²m w ḫrṣ h- s¹nt f h bʿls¹mn s¹lm w wrd h- mṭ{y}
Translation
By S¹ny son of Bṣy son of S¹r son of Ẓnnʾl son of Ġṯ son of Qs¹m and he was hungry and cold this year and so O Bʿls¹mn may he be secure and he brought the {riding animals} to a watering-place.

Interpretation

Commentary
The loop of the last letter is rather doubtful and it is possible it should be read as a h.

Provenance
Jordan
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
#0023332
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