BRCM 19.5

Siglum
BRCM 19.5
Transliteration
l ms¹lm bn s¹r bn ʾbḥt bn {m}{r}{ʾ}{y}{ġ}ṯ w wgm ʿl- ʾm -h w ʿl- ʾb {-h} w ʿl- ʾḫ -h w ʿl- ʾs¹
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Translation
By Ms¹lm son of S¹r son of ʾbḥt son of {Mrʾyġṯ} and he grieved for his mother and for {his} father and for his brother and for ʾs¹
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
BRCM: mrʾyġṯ for ----ṯ. Translation: "By Ms¹lm son of S¹r son of ʾrḥt son of Mrʾyġṯ and I grieve for his mother and his father and his brother and for ʾAws¹".
Commentary
A photograph of this stone was also published in Bikai 2005: 4. The text is on the far right of the face. The fourth name in the genealogy which is hidden by the shadow of the photographs can be restored as mrʾyġṯ from BRCM 9 which is by the same author and takes the genealogy to eight generations. For the reading ʾbḥt see BRCM 14.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Chiselled
Direction of Script
Curving boustrophedon

Associated Remains
Cairn
Associated Inscriptions
BRCM 19.1–19.4, 19.6

  • [BRCM] Bikai, P.M. Rajl: Cairn of the Mermaids. ACOR Newsletter 17:2, 2005: 4-5.
  • [BRCM] Bikai, P.M. Rājil: The Cairn of the Mermaids. Pages 225-243 in F. al-Khraysheh (ed.), Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan X. Amman: Department of Antiquities, 2009.
Site
Qāʿ al-Muqallā 40 km east of al-Azraq in Wādī Rāǧil, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
2002–2005
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Grieving, Relatives
Old OCIANA ID
#0025949
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA