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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2981

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2981
Transliteration
---- [b]n ʿḏr h- bkr w h rḍw ġnm [] {h-} s¹{n}t w ʿwr m ʿwr
Translation
By ---- {son of} ʿḏr is the young camel and O Rḍw [grant] booty this year and blind whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Commentary
The rock is broken and the beginning of the inscription, and possibly part of the drawing, are missing. There is a line after the word ġnm which might be extraneous or intended to be a l. The following letter has a third prong which is probably incidental and the following n is rather longer than the other examples of the letter.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Drawings
KRS 2981 d/1
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 2981 (second face)

  • 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
#0023615
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