PIGS ON STONE: SOME ROCK ART FROM THE EASTERN PART OF AL-ḤARRAH, NORTH-EASTERN JORDANIAN BADIA

Ali Al-Manaser; Firas Alsoleihat; Hind Mohammad Turki Al Turki

Rock Art Research

Vol. 38 No. 2 (2021)
Published : Nov 5, 2021

PIGS ON STONE: SOME ROCK ART FROM THE EASTERN PART OF AL-ḤARRAH, NORTH-EASTERN JORDANIAN BADIA

Ali Al-Manaser ⁽¹⁾, Firas Alsoleihat ⁽²⁾, Hind Mohammad Turki Al Turki ⁽³⁾

(1) Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan, Jordan

(2) University of Jordan, Jordan

(3) Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Abstract

This article presents the first examples of rock drawings showing wild boars with Safaitic inscriptions. In one of the drawings, the animal is described as ḫzr, the word for ‘pig’ which is widespread in the Semitic languages. The study ends with a summary of the various types of rock drawing in the north-eastern Jordanian Badia.