AbaNS 47
Text Information
- Siglum
- AbaNS 47
- Transliteration
- l s²ddt bn ʾs¹d h- ʿr
- Translation
- By S²ddt son of ʾs¹d is the hybrid
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The phrase h- ʿr is carved on the other side of the rock from the patronym which is unusual. 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).
- Provenance
- Wādī al-Ghuṣein
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Copy only
- Associated Drawings
- AbaNS 47 d/1
- ʿAbābnah [Ababneh], M.I. Neue safaitische Inschriften und deren bildliche Darstellung. (Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia, 6). Aachen: Shaker, 2005.
- 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
- Cairn 26, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1991
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0024807
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