KRS 3134
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 3134
- Transliteration
-
l ʿqrb bn ġnṯ bn hʾs¹ bn bdḥ bn rgl h- ʿr
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- Translation
-
By ʿqrb son of Ġnṯ son of Hʾs¹ son of Bdḥ 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
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 3134 d/1
- [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- 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
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0023772
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA,. 'KRS 3134.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/39547. Accessed: 15 Aug, 2025.