KWQ 22
Text Information
- Siglum
- KWQ 22
- Transliteration
- l ʿ{l}y bn ṯbr{n} h- ʿr
- Translation
- By {ʿly} son of {Ṯbrn} is the hybrid
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The inscription is very faint and doubtful. 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
- Technique
- Scratched
- 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
- #0024165
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