CEDS 305
Text Information
- Siglum
- CEDS 305
- Transliteration
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l ʾzʾt bn ʿm w ḫrṣ ʿl- ʾḫw -h ----ws¹m w l- -h [h-] ʿr
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- Translation
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By ʾzʾt son of ʿm and he was on the look-out for his brothers ---- and the hybrid is his
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- In w l-h [h-]ʿr the combination *waluhhaʿr has resulted in the assimilation of the definite article, as in the more common w l-h [h-]rgm. See Macdonald (in press, f). 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).
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- Direction of Script
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- Associated Drawings
- CEDS 305 d/1
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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
- EDS Site 80-8, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018936
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