AbaNS 427
Text Information
- Siglum
- AbaNS 427
- Transliteration
- l zhd bn ʿmr w h- ʿr
- Translation
- By Zhd son of ʿmr and [his is] the hybrid
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- AbaNS 427: l zhd bn ʿmrw h- ʿr
- Commentary
- It seems most likely that the w is a connective rather than an ending to the patronym although the latter is possible see KRS 127 where ʿmrw may occur. See Macdonald (in press, a) for the reasons for translating ʿ(y)r in Safaitic as a hybrid, that is a "mule" (the offspring of a male donkey x female horse) or a "hinny" (the offspring of a male horse x female donkey).
- Provenance
- Wādī Ruʿeila
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr
- Technique
- Copy only
- Associated Signs
- 2 rayed circles
- ʿAbābnah [Ababneh], M.I. Neue safaitische Inschriften und deren bildliche Darstellung. (Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia, 6). Aachen: Shaker, 2005.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Horses, asses, hybrids, and their uses in the ancient rock-art of the Syro-Arabian desert. in K. Linduff & P. Raulwing (eds), Equids in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and Arabia. Proceedings of a conference in memory of Mary Aitken Littauer. Oxford: BAR, 2019.
- Site
- Site 13 on the survey, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 2000
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0025193
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