Two More Nabataean Inscriptions from the Syro-Jordanian Ḥarrah desert

Bibliographic Data

ID10331981
AuthorsAli al‐Manaser (0000-0003-1911-0632, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, corresponding author), Jérôme Norris (0000-0002-8556-7588, Hiscant-MA (EA 1132), Université de Lorraine, Nancy cedex, France)
Year2019
Volume151
Issue1
Pages69-86
Publication date2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePalestine Exploration Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-0328 • E-ISSN: 1743-1301
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00310328.2019.1578930
OpenAlexW2927633284
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

This paper publishes two short Nabataean graffiti discovered in 2015 by the team of the OCIANA project at Tell al-ʿAbd and Marabb al-Shurafāʾ, in the Ḥarrah desert, north-eastern Jordan. Despite their brevity, these new texts appear of interest because the Ḥarrah is an area well outside that in which Nabataean inscriptions are normally found, bringing to twelve the number of known texts from that region, taking the Namārah epitaph into account. Consisting exclusively of onomastica, they contain some personal names already known among the settled and nomadic communities of southern Syria and northern Jordan as well as some new anthroponyms in the Nabataean onomasticon, notably šmʿn, that may correspond to the Arab name Samʿān

Ancient history · Archaeology · Desert (philosophy · Epitaph · Geography · Political science · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History

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