C 2839
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 2839
- Alternative Sigla
- Dunand 294 a
- Transliteration
-
l s²mt bnt s¹r h- ʿr w h s²ʿ{h}{q}{m}----{m}----{l}{t} {s}{l}m bn ʾl ḍf
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- Translation
-
By S²mt daughter of S¹r is the hybrid and O {S²ʿhqm} ----m---- Lt [grant] {security} [for] the people of ʾl Ḍf
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- C: s²mt bn ts¹r "S²mt son of Ts¹r" for s²mt bnt s¹r "S²mt daughter of S¹r"; h- ʿr "this ass" for " this 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).
- Associated Drawings
- A woman with a lyre (?) on the back of a mule led by a man
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- 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.
- [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
- Site
- Zalaf (j) “In the neighbourhood of Zalaf near Wādī al-Šām” (C p. 304)., Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1920s and 1930s
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy, Group (in the narrative), Isolated Prayer, Women
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0006043
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16 Sep, 2024
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