AbaNS 916
Text Information
- Siglum
- AbaNS 916
- Transliteration
-
l yʿmr bn ʿs²q h- ʿr
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- Translation
-
By Yʿmr son of ʿs²q is the hybrid
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- 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
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Copy only
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- [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
- #0025695
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22 Nov, 2024
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