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KRS 2842

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2842
Transliteration
l bns¹nt bn ʾs¹ bn s¹lmyt w rʿy h- ḏryt nwy
Translation
By Bns¹nt son of ʾs¹ son of S¹lmyt and he pastured the stony desert whilst migrating

Interpretation

Commentary
For ḏryt perhaps compare Araabic ḏirā "desert, stony wilderness" (Groom 1983: 76).

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched & mul. scratched

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 2835-2836 (first face); 2837-2841 (second face); 2842

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • Groom, N. A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames. A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary with an Arabic Glossary of Topographical Words and Placenames. London: Longman / Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0023476
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