BTH 47
Text Information
- Siglum
- BTH 47
- Transliteration
- l yʿly h- ʿr bn hms¹{k}
- Translation
- By Yʿly son of Hms¹k is the hybrid
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).
- Provenance
- Inscriptions recorded by Alison Betts at Tell Ḥibā, north-east Jordan and entered by Geraldine King
- Associated Drawings
- BTH 47 d/1
- 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
- Tall Ḥibā, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020015
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