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BRCM 4.3

Text Information

Siglum
BRCM 4.3
Transliteration
l ḥlt
Translation
By Ḥlt

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.

Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered

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

  • 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
Date Found
2002–2005
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Name only
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0025957
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