KWQ 21
Text Information
- Siglum
- KWQ 21
- Transliteration
- l {s²}ḫt {b}{n} qdm{ʾ}l ---- ʿr
- Translation
- By {S²ḫt} {son of} {Qdmʾl}---- hybrid
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The letters have been joined which makes them difficult to read. It is impossible to identify the signs immediately before ʿr. 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 Qattafi
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Features
- Ligatures
- Technique
- Direct hammered
- Associated Drawings
- An ass-like equid
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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.
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King at Wādī Qaṭṭāfī, north-eastern Jordan, and published here.
- Site
- Survey site Tell 1, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0024164
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