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BRCM 17.4

Text Information

Siglum
BRCM 17.4
Transliteration
l ----
Translation
By ----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Not read in BRCM.
Commentary
A photograph of this stone was also published in Bikai 2005: 5. The text is carved to the right of the beginning BRCM 17.2. Unfortunately it is not clear enough to read from the photograph.

Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Scratched

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 Inscriptions
BRCM 17.1–3.

  • 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
Subject
Query (subject uncertain)
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0025961
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