Umm Qraieh, a stone with rock art southwest of Petra

Fawzi Abudanah; Saad Twaissi; Zeyad al-Salameen; Mohammad B. Tarawneh

doi:10.5281/zenodo.16593

Umm Qraieh, a stone with rock art southwest of Petra

Fawzi Abudanah
, Saad Twaissi
, Zeyad al-Salameen
, Mohammad B. Tarawneh

Department of Tourism and Heritage

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This paper presents and discusses the archaeological evidence for Ancient rock art and Thamudic inscriptions from a site in al-Rajif south of Petra in southern Jordan. The site is a large sandstone called Umm Qraieh “Mother of reading” by the local people in the village of al-Rajif. Human and animal figures, inscriptions, footprints and other symbols were engraved on the upper surface of the stone during multiple periods. The paper includes a reading of the deciphered inscriptions and a discussion concerning rock art in general and the significance of Umm Qraieh in particular.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16593
Publication status	Published - Aug 29 2015

Keywords

Al-Rajif
Ibex
Rock art
Thamudic
Umm Qraieh

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Conservation
Archaeology
History
Anthropology
Archaeology

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