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Volume 9, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2031-5937
  • E-ISSN: 2295-9041

Abstract

Abstract

During a Safaitic survey conducted in the Wadi al-Khudri in the so called Black Desert a Christian Palestinian Aramaic inscription was discovered near Qaṣr Burqa at a distance of about 15 km. Burqa as an ancient Roman military post was reoccupied by monks during proto-Byzantine period. The Aramaic inscription is engraved on a rock among a Neolithic cairn; it is accompanied by a small Arabic graffito. The Aramaic text is an invocation by a diacon Stephanos one can supposed to have been in relation with Burqa Monastery.

Abstract

Au cours d’une exploration dans le wadi al-Khudri non loin de Qasr Burqa, une inscription araméenne christo-palestinienne a été découverte. Burqa dans le « désert Noir » fut un poste militaire romain réoccupé à l’époque byzantine par des moines. Dans un cairn néolithique du wadi, parmi de nombreuses inscriptions dites « safaïtiques », un rocher porte l’inscription araméenne accompagnée d’un petit graffito arabe. L’invocation araméenne est celle d’un diacre Stephanos qui a pu être en relation avec le monastère situé à 15 km de là environ.

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