NEWLY DISCOVERED NORTH ARABIAN INSCRIPTIONS FROM JORDAN
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejars.2021.210995
pages: 265-270
Al-Jbour, Kh. 1 & Alzoubi, M. 2
1 Archaeology dept., Faculty of Tourism and Archaeology, Jordan Univ., Amman, Jordan.
2 Cultural Resources Management dept., Queen Rania Faculty of Tourism and Heritage, Hashemite Univ., Zarqa , Jordan
Abstract:
This study deals with a new group of Ancient North Arabian (Ḥarrat Belād Ash Shām zone) inscriptions that collected during a recent survey in the North Eastern Bādiya of Jordan known by (Ḥarrat Belād Ash Shām). This concerns three Pre-Islamic Safaitic inscriptions, and two early Islamic texts. The purpose of this article is to publish images of the newly-found inscriptions, give a translation, and provide some commentary. This work was achieved through 4 main points; field survey, lab works, doc-umenting and tracing the collected inscriptions, and, theoretical works including translating and analyzing. Our results proved that Islamic inscriptions show the extent of development in writing the simple Kufic script and the ability of the people of the desert to learn.
Keywords:
Islamic Inscriptions
Safaitic Inscriptions
Early Arabian
Bādiya of Jordan
North Arabian
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