BRCM 17.2
Text Information
- Siglum
- BRCM 17.2
- Transliteration
- l bʿmh h- ġlmt bn ḥkm
- Translation
- By Bʿmh is [the drawing of] the female slave son of Ḥkm
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- BRCM: l rb{ʿ} {w} {l-}{-h} ġnmt bn ḥkm "For Rbʿ and for him [these] spoils (or booty) son of Ḥkm"
- Commentary
- A photograph of this stone was also published in Bikai 2005: 5.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Associated Signs
- Three sets of 7 dots, and one set of 8, two sets of 7 lines, a "sun" sign within a circle, a cartouche
- Associated Drawings
- A naked women with her hair rising from her head and her arms raised, with another very small one with bent legs to the right of her, and to the left a stick-figure human possibly dancing.
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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
- Drawing of entertainment, Genealogy, Women
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0025959
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