Sigla: KRS 15; KR 1  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ʿqrb bn mʿz bn ġzlt w wgd s¹fr ms¹k w ngʾt f tʿql w dwy w mṭy m- glʿd l- tdmr f h s²ʿhqm s¹lm w ġnyt l- ḏ s²ḥṣ

Translation
By ʿqrb son of Mʿz son of Ġzlt and he found the inscription of Ms¹k and Ngʾt and so he was unable to speak and was miserable and he travelled quickly from Glʿd to Tdmr and so O S²ʿhqm [grant] security and abundance to whoever is suffering from scarcity

Commentary
The author appears to be a brother of the author of KRS 16.

For another reference to glʿd see C 2473 (which also mentions Abila) and possibly AWS 168.

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Jordan
Region: Al-Mafraq Province
Site: Wādī Salma
Map reference: Sheet 3455 II 473974
Latitude: 32.442588
Longitude: 37.288279
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1989
Field collector: Geraldine King
Survey: Basalt Desert Rescue Survey (BDRS)
Notes: Wadi Salma

References:
[KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here

[KR] King, G.M.H. The Basalt Desert Rescue Survey and Some Preliminary Remarks on the Safaitic Inscriptions and Rock Drawings. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 20, 1990: 55-78. Pages: 75 Plates: I a

[MNH ] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009]. Pages: 333, n. 193

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