WH 284
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 284
- Transliteration
-
l ws¹mʾl h- ʿyr bn yʿmr
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- Translation
-
The small hybrid is by Ws¹mʾl son of Yʿmr
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The author wrote h- ʿyr before deciding to add his patronym. The spelling ʿyr should not be interpreted as a plene spelling of the diphthong, but rather as a diminutive, perhaps *ʿuyayr. 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
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Drawings
- A ʿyr
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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.
- [WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Site
- WH Cairn 9a, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011044
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