RWQ 47
Text Information
- Siglum
- RWQ 47
- Transliteration
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l mʿz bn mʿwr bn rgl h- ʿr
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- Translation
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By Mʿz son of Mʿwr son of Rgl is the hybrid
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
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).
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Associated Remains
- location
- [RWQ] Al-Rūsān [Al-Rousan, Rousan], M.M. Nuqūš ṣafawīyah min wādī qiṣṣāb bi-ʾl-urdun. Dirāsah maydānīyah taḥlīlīyah muqāranah. Unpublished doctoral thesis King Saʿūd University, Riyadh. 2004.
- 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 Salmā, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0031975
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16 Sep, 2024
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