KRS 3187

Interpretation

Commentary: The attempt at joining the letters and the infilling makes the interpretation of the inscription extremely difficult. The first letter might be a r and the second letter might be an ʾ, ṯ, or ṣ, depending on whether or not the joining of the fork is part of the letter. The next letter might be a g or a m, and then there appears to be a n joined to the adjacent letters by a line across one end. Then there is a b, and then probably a n which has been more or less obscured by hammering which has been extended to join the back of the following letter. 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

KRS 3187 d/1

Associated Inscriptions

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.