KhBG 433
Text Information
- Siglum
- KhBG 433
- Transliteration
- l bs¹trh {h-} ʿr
- Translation
- By Bs¹trh is the hybrid
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- KhBG 433: l bs¹tlh h- ʿr
- 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
- Wādī Ghuṣayn
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Copy only
- Associated Drawings
- KhBG 433 d/1
- Associated Remains
- Cairn 14
- Al-Khraysheh, F.H. Nuqūš ṣafawiyah min biyār al-ġuṣayn. (Mudawwanat al-nuqūš al-urduniyah, 1). Irbid: Ǧāmiʿat al-yarmūk, 2002.
- 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
- Wādī and Biyār al-Ġuṣayn, Jordan
- Date Found
- 01.07.1990-24.07.1990
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018318
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