KRS 3238
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 3238
- Transliteration
- l ʾḥwr bn gdy bn kmd h- dr s¹nt gs²m w ʿwr m {ʿ}{w}r
- Translation
- ʾḥwr son of Gdy son of Kmd was here [in] the year of Gs²m and blind whoever {scratches out} [the inscription]
Interpretation
- Commentary
- There are hammer marks over the first part of the name. The third and second letters from the end are faint. For s¹nt gs²m cf WH 1276 and the commentary to WH 3792a.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Name Distinguished
- Written in cartouche
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche around KRS 3238–3239
- Associated Inscriptions
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. No. 1276
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0023876
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