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The Nabateans in the Ancient North Arabian Inscriptions (Safaitic): Analytical Study of New Safaitic Inscription
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Ḥ R B Y H D in Ancient North Arabian Inscriptions (Safaitic)
No full textThe research aims to highlight a recently discovered Safaitic inscription from Jordan. This inscription was transliterated to classical Arabic and the personal names, verbs and term mentioned in the text was studied and compared with other Semitic languages. The importance of this study lies in the publication of this yet unpublished inscription. The inscription contains the term Ḥ R B Y H D. The inscription can be dated between the middle of the first century B.C. to the mid-first century A.D., because the location of the inscriptions with the term and the date of the nearest war involving Jews. This inscription is the second instance that the word ḏ-y-l which denotes tribe affiliation appears
Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom
Get PDFThis paper deals with four basalt stones found in Wadi Salmā, in the desert of north-eastern Jordan, during a survey of the OCIANA project (Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia) in April 2015. These stones bear depictions of musicians with their instruments alongside Safaitic inscriptions. This paper will present an analysis of the musical instruments represented on these stones. It appears that five distinct musical instruments are depicted. It can be surmised that these instruments needed to be light and easily transportable on account of the pastoral, nomadic life that the peoples inhabiting the region led. It also appears from the depictions that women played a prominent role in musical gatherings
New Islamic inscriptions from the Jordanian Badia region
Get PDFThis paper aims to study new Islamic epigraphical material found in the
Jordanian Badia. These inscriptions include one hadith and one inscription
dating to the thirteenth century ce / eighth century ah. This study will
highlight the relationship between the place where the inscriptions were
found and the early Islamic mosque also said to be located there. The
purpose of this article is to publish images of the newly-found inscriptions,
give a translation, and provide some commentary. This article considers
the definition of Islamic inscription to be all Arabic inscriptions written
since Islamic times
The Nabataeans against the Ḥwlt – once again. An edition of new Safaitic inscriptions from the Jordanian Ḥarrah desert
Get PDFThis paper examines three Safaitic graffiti recently discovered during a survey of the Wādī Salmā area in the ḥarrah desert, north-eastern Jordan. While one of these texts consists exclusively of onomastica, the other two contain new references to the Ḥwlt tribe, one of which is in a prayer asking Dushara to avenge the Nabataeans against them. This provides further evidence of a conflict that took place between the Nabataeans and the Ḥwlt, a mysterious event that has recently been brought to attention by Sabri Abbadi. The decipherment of the texts is followed by an updated list of the documents referring to this war and by some remarks on its historical context. The question that is asked is whether it could have occurred during the Nabataean takeover of northern Arabia during the first century bc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
New epigraphical material from Jordan
No full textThis article deals with new epigraphical material which was excavated in Wadi Salma and the area of al-Mushattain Jordan. The importance of this study lies in the publication of these yet unpublished inscriptions
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