AbaNS 855
Text Information
- Siglum
- AbaNS 855
- Transliteration
- l s²mrḫ bn lbʾt h- ʿyr
- Translation
- By S²mrḫ son of Lbʾt is the small hybrid
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- AbaNS 855: h- ʿr for h- ʿyr
- Commentary
- The spelling ʿyr should not be interpreted as a plene spelling of the diphthong, but rather as a diminutive, perhaps *ʿuyayr. 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
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Copy only
- Associated Signs
- 7 dots
- Associated Drawings
- A drawing of a ʿyr
- 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
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0025631
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