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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

MKJS 1

Text Information

Siglum
MKJS 1
Transliteration
l ʾnʿm bn ʾys¹ bn ʿḏ bn ʾmr w s²ty ʿnzt nfr mn ʾ- rm
Translation
By ʾnʿm son of ʾys¹ son of ʿḏ and he spent the winter at ʿAnāzh whilst fleeing from the Rm

Interpretation

Commentary
Jabal ʿAnāzah is north of Al-Safāwī in north-east Jordan (32.37583333 N 37.07194444 E). On the other hand it is possible that ʿnzt is "a long flat-topped hill rising from a plain" (Groom 1983: 41).

Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & chiselled

Associated Inscriptions
Site
Ǧabal Ṣaqʿ / Ṣaǧaʿ, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1981
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0024586
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