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Mr.A 6

Siglum
Mr.A 6
Transliteration
l s¹ḫr bn ʿḏ bn ʿḏ bn ġṯ w s²ry m- ʿ{ḏ} bn ʾḫ {-h} h- dmyt w ʿ{w}r l- ḏ {y}ʿ{w}r
Translation
By S¹ḫr son of ʿḏ son of ʿḏ son of Ġṯ and he bought from ʿḏ son of {his} brother the drawing and {blindness} to whoever {scratches [it] out}

Interpretation

Commentary
Mr.A 6 to 8 are on the same stone. This text is written in large incised letters under the drawing, up the right hand edge of the stone and along the right side of the top. In the sentence w s²ry m- ʿ{ḏ} bn ʾḫ {-h} h- dmyt it may seem unlikely that he bought the drAWING FROM HIS NEPHEW. Littmann suggested that in LP 1166 dmyt might mean "a mare from Dūmā", and certainly Ahmad Al-Jallad (following C.J. Robin) has suggested that in some inscriptions h-dmy could be the nisbah for a man from the oasis of Dūmā (2015: 310). The problem with taking dmyt as "the mare from Dūmā" here is that the horse seems clearly to be a stallion, and unless one takes dmyt as referring to the animal being hunted — the sex of which is not shown — which seems unlikely, one has to fall back on the normal meaning of dmyt "drawing", until another solution can be proposed.

Associated Drawings
Drawing of a horseman with a plumed helmet and a short throwing spear (ramḥ) hunting a wild ass. Note that the horse has a plume attached to its forelock/ The hatching on both the horse and wild ass are purely decorative, as in other drawings of equids, and are not intended to be naturalistic.
Associated Inscriptions

  • Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.
  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 on the right bank of the Wādī Gharz at al-Mrōshan, southern Syria, and published here.
Site
Jordan
Current Location
Suweidah Museum (Unknown)
Subjects
Curse, Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy, Relatives
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0035957
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