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KRS 3288

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 3288
Transliteration
l grmn w rʿy h- ʾbl f- h- nḫl w wrd h- ġrbt
Translation
By Grmn and he pastured the camels in the valley and he came to a watering-place at the reservoir

Interpretation

Commentary
The rock was brought to camp from line 21 VP 1222, and then taken to Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum. For the interpretation of ġrbt cf. Arabic ġarb "a reservoir from which water is distributed" (Groom 1983: 93).

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 3289-3290 (first face); 3292-3293

  • 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
Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum (5)
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0023929
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