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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2898

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2898
Transliteration
l ʾlh [bn] ḏʾb bn kn w ngʿ ʿl- ----tfrʿ----
Translation
By ʾlh son of Ḏʾb son of Kn and he grieved in pain for ----tfrʿ

Interpretation

Commentary
The rock is damaged between the first and second names and there are abrasions covering the last part of the text. There are traces of other inscriptions on the rock but most of the letters are illegible.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
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
#0023532
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