A Religio-Legal Nabataean Inscription from the Atargatis/Al-ʿUzza Temple at Petra

During the 1981 excavations at Petra a marble worker's workshop was found, which included an inscribed slab dated to the 37th year of Aretas IV. The four broken lines of text clearly show the religio-legal nature of the original full text and add to the current picture of Nabataean religious background. Script and vocabulary phenomena in the text are also of interest.

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[2]  J. Rabinowitz.  A Clue to the Nabatean Contract from the Dead Sea Region , 1955, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

[3]  Edward William Lane,et al.  Arabic-English Lexicon , 2003 .