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
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

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.

Bikai, P.M. Rajl: Cairn of the Mermaids. ACOR Newsletter 17:2, 2005: 4-5.
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