Documenting and Interpreting Jordan's Epigraphic Heritage: Analysis of New Ancient Northern Arabian Epigraphic Material from the Ḥarrat Al-Shām Desert, North-Eastern Jordan

Al-Rawabdeh, Nada; Al-Manaser, Ali

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13882087.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Documenting and Interpreting Jordan's Epigraphic Heritage: Analysis of New Ancient Northern Arabian Epigraphic Material from the Ḥarrat Al-Shām Desert, North-Eastern Jordan

Nada Al-Rawabdeh,¹ Ali Al-Manaser ²

(1) Tourism Management Department, Faculty of Tourism and Archaeology, Jordan University, Amman, Jordan
(2) Department of Cultural Resources Management and Museology, Queen Rania Faculty of Tourism and Heritage, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan (aliy@hu.edu.jo)

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Abstract

This paper focuses on recently discovered Safaitic inscriptions from the Jordanian Badia during the Badia Epigraphic Survey Project (BES), potentially referencing the historical figures King Aretas IV and his son King Malichus II. Drawing from the OCIANA database, which categorizes inscriptions mentioning or related to the Nabataeans or their rulers, these inscriptions have been meticulously studied and scrutinized.

Keywords

Jordan, heritage, historical site, ANA inscriptions, Black Desert, Jordanian Badia, written heritage, epigraphy, early Islam, mosques.

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Al-Rawabdeh, N; A. Al-Manaser. 2024.
Documenting and Interpreting Jordan's Epigraphic Heritage: Analysis of New Ancient Northern Arabian Epigraphic Material from the Ḥarrat Al-Shām Desert, North-Eastern Jordan.
Arqueología Iberoamericana 54: 44–52.

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PURL: purl.org/aia/5405. ARK: ark:/49934/343.

Received: September 7, 2024. Accepted: September 21, 2024. Published: October 4, 2024.

Acknowledgements

The authors are greatly indebted to Michael C.A. Macdonald (University of Oxford), Ahmad Al-Jallad (Ohio State University) and Jérôme Norris (Université de Lorraine) for their very helpful comments on these texts.

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