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- Title
A New Nabataean Funerary Inscription from Humayma.
- Authors
Bevan, George A.; Reeves, M. Barbara
- Abstract
This inscription was found in the summer of 2007 at the site of Humayma (ancient Hawara) in southern Jordan and has three lines of Nabataean in a recessed frame (tabula ansata). The text seems not to be associated with a grave site, but with a funerary stele (nefesh) erected by two sons for their deceased father. Though the stele is itself lost, close parallels with Nabataean stelae depicted in relief in Petra suggest what the complete monument may have looked like. Based on its letter forms, the monument dates to the late second or third century and reflects a contemporary re-emphasis on Nabataean culture within the Roman Province of Arabia.
- Subjects
ARABIAN Peninsula; EGYPT; NABATAEAN art; INSCRIPTIONS; HAWARA Site (Egypt); STELE (Archaeology); NEFESH (The Hebrew word); ROMAN provinces; GRAVE stele (Archaeology)
- Publication
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2010, Vol 55, Issue 2, p497
- ISSN
0022-4480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jss/fgq010