AbaNS 63
Text Information
- Siglum
- AbaNS 63
- Transliteration
-
l ʾmn bn bhʾ h- ʿr
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- Translation
-
By ʾmn son of Bhʾ is the hybrid
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
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).
- Editio Princeps
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Copy only
- Direction of Script
- Straight line
- Associated Drawings
- AbaNS 63 d/1
- [AbaNS] 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 36, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1991
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0024823
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA. 'AbaNS 63.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/8019. Accessed: 07 Jun, 2025.