Ms 3
Text Information
- Siglum
- Ms 3
- Transliteration
- l gd{y} bn ʿnq h- ʿr
- Translation
- By {Gdy} son of ʿnq is the hybrid
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).
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Direct hammered
- Associated Signs
- A cartouche around the inscription and drawing and a schematic man with 7 dots
- Associated Drawings
- Drawing of a ʿr
- 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.
- Inscriptions recorded in north-eastern Jordan by Alison Betts and Fidelity and William Lancaster who sent their photographs to Michael Macdonald. They are published here
- Site
- Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0030162
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