BRCM 4.2

Siglum
BRCM 4.2
Transliteration
l ḥglt w l--h ʾ- gml
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Translation
By Ḥglt and by him is [the drawing of] the camel
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Not read in BRCM which simply (and mistakenly) says "the same text [as BRCM 4.1] is repeated with a fine line" (p. 227)
Commentary
This text is carved very lightly between BRCM 4.1 and the female figure. It is interesting that the same author in adjacent inscriptions uses the rarer form of the definite article ʾ- here but the more common h- (assimilated to the pronominal suffix (-h) immediately before it) in BRCM 4.1. A photograph of this stone was also published in Bikai 2005: 5.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Direct hammered
Direction of Script
Top-to-bottom

Associated Drawings
A large male camel with hairs sticking out of its hump and a woman drawing out her hair
Associated Remains
Cairn
Associated Inscriptions

  • [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
Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0025956
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA