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

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 tar, 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.