Old Arabic Minutiae II: Greek-Safaitic Bilinguals and Language Contact in the Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah

This article publishes a selection of texts discovered during the 2019 Badia Survey that shed light on the complex interactions between the inhabitants of the desert and settled areas. The inscriptions studied here include two new Safaitic-Greek bilingual texts, two new Greek inscriptions, and a Saf...

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Authors: Al-Jallad, Ahmad 1985- (Author) ; al-Manaser, Ali (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Arabica
Year: 2022, Volume: 69, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 567-590
Further subjects:B Old Arabic
B Multilingualism
B Epigraphy
B Safaitic
B Greek
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Summary:This article publishes a selection of texts discovered during the 2019 Badia Survey that shed light on the complex interactions between the inhabitants of the desert and settled areas. The inscriptions studied here include two new Safaitic-Greek bilingual texts, two new Greek inscriptions, and a Safaitic text composed by an inhabitant of the city of Bosra in the Ḥawrān.
ISSN:1570-0585
Contains:Enthalten in: Arabica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341637