Younis al‐Shdaifat

Biographic Data

ID5907113
NAMEYounis al‐Shdaifat
GIVEN NAMESYounis
FAMILY NAMEal‐Shdaifat
SIGNATUREAL SHDAIFAT Y
AFFILIATIONSMutah University
ORCID0000-0002-9759-935X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Insights from archaeobotanical investigations at Shuqayra al-Gharbiyya

    Open AccessAnnette Hansen, Younis al‐Shdaifat et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2026

  • A priest, a deacon, and some lay people in Greek Christian epitaphs from the Land of Moab

    Mohammad Alsarairah, Younis al‐Shdaifat et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2025References: 1

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  • Epigraphic harvest at the Dead Sea

    Younis al‐Shdaifat, Younis al-Shdaifat et al.ARTICLESemitica et Classica2023

    This paper presents seven Christian funerary stelae that were recently discovered in southern Jordan at Ġawr al-Ṣāfī, the ancient Zoora in Palaestina Tertia. Six of them bear ordinary Greek epitaphs. The seventh is much more outstanding, as its inscription is written in both Greek and Aramaic. This monument dated to 417 ad is also unique in that it testifies to the use of the Syriac alphabet within the local Christian community in late antiquity

  • Greek Christian epitaphs from Charakmoba and the Land of Moab

    Julien Aliquot, Younis al‐Shdaifat et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2020Cited by: 4References: 1

    Fifteen Greek inscriptions recently discovered in the Land of Moab (southern Jordan) are published here. All are Christian epitaphs, engraved on limestone funerary stelae of an extremely common type at Al-Karak (ancient Charakmoba) and on the surrounding plateau, which bring new information on the onomastics and funerary customs of the local communities in Late Antiquity. An epigram that contains phrases directly borrowed from the epic code of th…

  • The Palmyrenes in a new Safaitic inscription

    Zeyad Αl-Salameen, Zeyad Al-Salameen et al.ARTICLESyria2019

    This paper deals with a new ancient North Arabian (Safaitic) inscription discovered by Rafe Harahsheh during his epigraphical survey in the Jordanian Ḥarrah. This new text contains a reference to a person who was protecting Palmyrenes and helping them in following the traces of something (probably a caravan). It contains the verb qyf and the tribal name mslq which have not been recorded in the published Safaitic inscriptions yet. The paper includ…

  • Nabataean echoes in al-Ḥarrah

    Zeyad Αl-Salameen, Zeyad Al-Salameen et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2018Cited by: 1References: 3

    During a survey conducted by the authors in the eastern part of al-Ḥarrah in Jordan in 2017,11. The term al-Ḥarrah is used to refer to the basalt steppe-desert located in northern Jordan and southern Syria. a number of new Safaitic and Nabataean texts were found. Some of them mention events dated during the reigns of ḥrṯt and rbʾl, others refer to the revolt of dmṣy. Other Safaitic texts contain references to the Nabataeans. Three Nabataean graff…

  • Nomads of the Ḥarrah at Sea

    Zeyad Αl-Salameen, Zeyad Al-Salameen et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2018References: 2

    This Safaitic text was found in el-Khderī region in the northeastern Jordanian Bādiyah (al-Ḥarrah) during an epigraphic survey conducted by the authors in the summer of 2017. This paper includes analysis of this text and a commentary on its contents. The stone where this text was inscribed contains the first ship/ boat drawing in the North Eastern Jordanian Bādiyah. The text is unique since it is the only known Safaitic text that talks about Bedo…

  • An early Christian Arabic graffito mentioning ‘Yazīd the king’

    Open AccessYounis al‐Shdaifat, Ahmad Al-Jallad et al.ARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2017Cited by: 6References: 2

    This article is an edition and commentary on an early Christian Arabic inscription discovered near Qaṣr Burquʿ in northeastern Jordan. The text mentions a certain yzydw ʾl‐mlk ‘Yazid the king’ and could date to the sixth or seventh century. We discuss the text's palaeography, its relevance for the history of the Arabic script, and attempt to identify the historical figure to which it refers