BRCM 77.2
Text Information
- Siglum
- BRCM 77.2
- Transliteration
- l ḥglt ʾ- qn{t}
- Translation
- By Ḥglt is [the drawing of] the {female slave}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- BRCM: For Ḥglt (for him) this wild cow.
- Commentary
- The word qnt can mean either a female-slave in general, or one who sings. Note the less common form of the definite article ʾ- rather than h-.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Associated Drawings
- A woman drawing out her abundant hair and a goat
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- Bikai, P.M. Rājil: The Cairn of The Mermaids. Pages 225-244 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
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0030453
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