BRCM 4.3
Text Information
- Siglum
- BRCM 4.3
- Transliteration
-
l ḥlt
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- Translation
-
By Ḥlt
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- BRCM: Not published but referred to in the commentary to 4.1: "The writer misspelled ˙glt and started again with the correct spelling."
- Commentary
- The text is carved vertically on the right edge of the face. It is possible that it is a first attempt to write the name ḥglt which occurs in BRCM 4.1–4.2 but the author left out the g.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- 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 4.1–2
- [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, Name only
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0025957
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA. 'BRCM 4.3.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/16755. Accessed: 04 Jul, 2025.