Arabian Epigraphic Notes

An Open Access Online Journal on Arabian Epigraphy.

New evidence of a conflict between the Nabataeans and the Ḥwlt in a Safaitic inscription from Wadi Ram

Abstract

This article reads and interprets a Safaitic inscription discovered in Wadi Ram that mentions a conflict between the Ḥwlt, a North Arabian tribe, and the Nabataeans.


Keywords

Chronology Nabataeans Safaitic

A New Nabataean Inscription from the Moab Plateau

Abstract

This paper deals with a new unpublished Nabataean inscription found in al-ʿAdnāniyah town, which is located to the north of Muʾtah in the Governorate of Karak in southern Jordan. The inscription represents a new addition to the corpus of Nabataean inscriptions from the Moab Plateau. The text, which is dated to the 29th year of Aretas IV, mentions the construction of rbʿyʾ, a term that has not been attested previously in Nabataean.


Keywords

Aramaic Cultic practice Nabataean inscriptions Nabataean religion Nabataeans

A selection of Safaitic inscriptions from the Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum II

Abstract

This paper edits twenty-one previously unpublished Ancient North Arabian (Safaitic) inscriptions discovered in 2015 in Jordan, one of which mentions the Nabataean Damaṣī.


Keywords

Ancient North Arabian Damasi Nabataeans Safaitic

Nabataean inscriptions from southwest of Taymāʾ, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This group of inscriptions was found at several sites southwest of Taymāʾ, on the way to Al-ʿUlā. They were discovered by Dr Bader al-Faqayr, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, King Saud University during his geographical survey of the province, in the spring of 2008. The study of these fifteen inscriptions provides twenty-three personal names; four of them occur for the first time in Nabataean inscriptions. They provided us with thirteen lexical items, two of which are attested for the second time in Nabataean inscriptions: gʾyʾ ‘the tailor’ and yhwdyʾ ‘the Jew’.


Keywords

Aramaic Graffiti Nabataeans Nabataeo-Arabic Saudi Arabia