BES15 701

Siglum: BES15 701
Transliteration: l mnʿ bn tmʾl w rʿy h- rḥbt bql b ʿr ---- s¹nt qtl ----flnqb
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Translation: By Mnʿ son of tmʾl and he pastured the raḥaba on spring herbage with a hybrid ... in the year that ? (was) killed ----
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary: bql: a n may be read above the b and before the q, which would give the reading b nql, meaning 'by the rain water floods'. The stone being quite damaged however, this mark might be disregarded. [Joseph O'Hara] snt qtl...: it is not clear from the photographs whether this is indeed a continuation of the same inscription (this reading) or whether it is part of an inscription now lost. [Joseph O'Hara] 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).

[BES15] Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2015 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.

Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA