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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2821

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2821
Transliteration
l s¹mk bn ʾdʿm ʾl ḥy w yqtl
Translation
By S¹mk son of ʾdʿm of the lineage of Ḥy and he will fight

Interpretation

Commentary
The author has not written the ḏ before the noun ʾl. Either the t in yqtl was originally left out and inserted later or the author wrote the final l to the side because of the lack of space in the direction he was going.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
d loop a dot; ʿ a dot; y loop a dot; q loop a dot
Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Signs
Cartouche

  • 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
Subjects
Genealogy, Lineage (expressed in other ways)
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0023455
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