WH 2436

Interpretation

Commentary: The names are written from left to right above the camel suckling its calf and h- gml is written vertically between its neck and its hump. There is another camel drawn in outline to the right of it and WH comment that it may be this one to which the inscription refers, since gml is normally used of a male camel. One other possibility is that the camel immediately below the inscription was originally drawn as a male camel (note that its tail hangs down) and that the udder and the calf were added later. On the convention of showing male camels with their tails hanging down and females with their tails curled up see Searight 1983: 575.

Provenance: WH Cairn 34 and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.
Original Reading Credit: Ed. pr.

Associated Drawings

A camel suckling its calf

Associated Inscriptions

Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Searight, A. The Rock-Art Survey, 1982. Pages 575-576 in M.C.A. Macdonald and A. Searight, Inscriptions and Rock-Art of the Jawa Area 1982: A preliminary Report. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27, 1983: 571-576.
Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2018 and published here