AbaNS 786

Text Information

Siglum
AbaNS 786
Transliteration
l ----gt bn ʾdʿgt h- ʿr
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Translation
By ----gt son of ʾdʿgt is the hybrid
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
AbaNS 786: nẓgt for the first name.
Commentary
The second and third letters are very doubtful in the copy. 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).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Copy only
Direction of Script
Curving

  • [AbaNS] 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 14 on the survey, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
2000
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0025557
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Updated 22 Nov, 2024 by OCIANA