KWQ 161
Text Information
- Siglum
- KWQ 161
- Transliteration
-
l mlṯt bn {ʿ}ly bn bdl h- ʿr
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- Translation
-
By Mlṯt son of {ʿly} son of Bdl is the hybrid
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The inscription and drawing are surrounded by a scratched cartouche. 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).
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- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Signs
- A scratched cartouche around the inscription and drawing. 2 series of seven lines
- Associated Drawings
- KWQ 161 d/1
- [KWQ] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King at Wādī Qaṭṭāfī, north-eastern Jordan, and published here.
- 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
- Tell 7, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0024319
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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