KhS 28
Text Information
- Siglum
- KhS 28
- Transliteration
- l gfft bn mqḥn bn ʿmrn h- ʿr
- Translation
- By Gfft son of Mqḥn son of ʿmrn is the hybrid
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- KhMNS: ʿr "ass" for "hybrid"
- 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). Unfortunately, the only available image is the photograph published in the editio princeps reproduced here.
- Provenance
- al-Ḥarrah al-ʾUrduniyyah
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Drawings
- Two horsemen, one of them is spearing an oryx and the other is preparing to spear an animal which might also be an oryx
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Khraysheh, F. Al-ṣayd ʿind al-ʿarab al-ṣafāʾiyīn qabl al-islām. Journal of Epigraphy and Rock Drawings 1, 2007: 9-28.
- 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 Miqāṭ, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0030300
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