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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2870

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2870
Transliteration
l ḥḍr bn ḫl bn whbʾl bn ʾdm w nfr m- ḥwlt w ḫrṣ f h lt fṣyt l- ḏ ḫr[ṣ] w s¹lm w ʿwr ḏ yʿwr
Translation
By Ḥḍr son of Ḫl son of Whbʾl son of ʾdm and he escaped from Ḥwlt and he kept watch and so O Lt [grant] deliverance to him who keeps watch and [grant] security and blind whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Commentary
The last letter of the first occurrence of ḫrṣ is covered by lichen.

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
#0023504
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