Open Access Journal: Arabian Epigraphic Notes: An Open Access Online Journal on Arabian Epigraphy

 [First posted in AWOL 4 January 2016, updated 25 September 2020]

Arabian Epigraphic Notes: An Open Access Online Journal on Arabian Epigraphy

ISSN: 2451-8875

The Arabian Peninsula contains one of the richest epigraphic landscapes in the Old World, and new texts are being discovered with every expedition to its deserts and oases. Arabian Epigraphic Notes is a forum for the publication of these epigraphic finds, and for the discussion of relevant historical and linguistic issues. The Arabian Peninsula is broadly defined as including the landmass between the Red Sea and the Arabo-Persian gulf, and stretching northward into the Syrian Desert, Jordan, and adjacent cultural areas. In order to keep up with the rapid pace of discoveries, our online format will provide authors the ability to publish immediately following peer-review, and will make available for download high resolution, color photographs. The open-access format will ensure as wide a readership as possible.

AEN invites original articles and short communications dealing with the Ancient South Arabian, Ancient North Arabian, Nabataean (and Aramaic in general), Arabic, and Greek epigraphy from the Arabian Peninsula, but also from other areas so long as the link to Arabia and its cultures is clear. The language of the Journal is English. Review articles will also be considered.

Arabian Epigraphic Notes is essential reading for all interested in the languages and scripts of the ancient Near East, and of interest to students of Northwest Semitic epigraphy, Cuneiform studies, Egyptology, and classical antiquity. We hope that the journal will contribute to our understanding of the languages and cultures of Arabia, from their earliest attestations until the contemporary period. It is hoped that the journal’s accessibility will further help integrate the epigraphy and languages of ancient Arabia into the broader field of Semitic Philology.

• Volume 1 (2015) PDF
  1. M.C.A. Macdonald
     On the uses of writing in ancient Arabia and the role of palaeography in studying them
  2. A. Al-Jallad
     A. al-Manaser
     New Epigraphica from Jordan I: a pre-Islamic Arabic inscription in Greek letters and a Greek inscription from north-eastern Jordan
  3. S. Abbadi
     New evidence of a conflict between the Nabataeans and the Ḥwlt in a Safaitic inscription from Wadi Ram
  4. A. Al-Housan
     A selection of Safaitic inscriptions from the Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
  5. L. Nehmé
     Strategoi in the Nabataean Kingdom : a reflection of Central Places?
  6. J. Lundberg
     Prepositional Phrases in the Dadanitic Inscriptions
• Volume 2 (2016) PDF
  1. S. Rijziger
     The Kāniṭ Museum Collection
  2. P.W. Stokes
     A new and unique Thamudic inscription from northeast Jordan
  3. S. Abbadi
     A. al-Manaser
     Remarks on the etymon trḥ in the Safaitic inscriptions
  4. A. Al-Jallad
     A. al-Manaser
     New Epigraphica from Jordan II: three Safaitic-Greek partial bilingual inscriptions
  5. F. Kootstra
     The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions & its Classification
  6. H. Dirbas
     ʿAbd al-Asad and the Question of a Lion-God in the pre-Islamic Tradition: An Onomastic Study
  7. Z. Al-Salameen
     A New Dedicatory Nabataean Inscription Dated to AD 53
  8. H. Hayajneh
     Dadanitic Graffiti from Taymāʾ Region Revisited
• Volume 3 (2017) PDF
  1. Z. Al-Salameen
     Y. Shdaifat
     A New Nabataean Inscription from the Moab Plateau
  2. S.A. Al-Zaidi
     Betwixt and Between the Bactrian Camel and the Dromedary: The Semantic Evolution of the Lexeme udru during the 11th to 8th Centuries BCE
  3. A. Al-Housan
     A selection of Safaitic inscriptions from the Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum II
  4. M. Van Putten
     The development of the triphthongs in Quranic and Classical Arabic
  5. A. Al-Jallad
     Marginal notes on and additions to An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (SSLL 80; Leiden: Brill, 2015), with a supplement to the dictionary
  6. M. Arbach
     La datation paléographique des inscriptions sudarabiques du Ier millénaire avant J.-C. : méthode et limites
  7. M.I. Ababneh
     A new Safaitic square-script inscription with a unique expression of ‘longing’
  8. L. Nehmé
     New dated inscriptions (Nabataean and pre-Islamic Arabic) from a site near al-Jawf, ancient Dūmah, Saudi Arabia
• Volume 4 (2018)
  1. A. al-Manaser
     J. Norris
     The Nabataeans against the Ḥwlt – once again. An edition of new Safaitic inscriptions from the Jordanian Ḥarrah desert
  2. A. Al-Housan
     An Islamic inscription from the Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
  3. M. Shaddel
     Traces of the hamza in the Early Arabic Script: The Inscriptions of Zuhayr, Qays the Scribe, and ‘Yazīd the King’
  4. J.-L. Le Quellec
     F. Duquesnoy
     V. Charpentier
     A. al-Mashani
     The Ẓufār painted Inscriptions in Oman: Epigraphy and New Technologies
  5. A. al-Manaser
     L. Ellis
     New Islamic inscriptions from the Jordanian Badia region
  6. Z. Al-Salameen
     M. Hazza
     New Nabataean Inscriptions from Umm al-Jimāl
  7. S.A. al-Theeb
     Nabataean inscriptions from southwest of Taymāʾ, Saudi Arabia

Authors

• Ababneh, M.I.
• Abbadi, S.
• Al-Housan, A.
• Al-Jallad, A.
• al-Manaser, A.
• al-Mashani, A.
• Al-Salameen, Z.
• Al-Zaidi, S.A.
• Arbach, M.
• Charpentier, V.
• Dirbas, H.
• Duquesnoy, F.
• Hayajneh, H.
• Kootstra, F.
• Ellis, L.
• Le Quellec, J.-L.
• Lundberg, J.
• Hazza, M.
• Macdonald, M.C.A.
• Nehmé, L.
• Norris, J.
• Rijziger, S.
• al-Theeb, S.A.
• Shaddel, M.
• Shdaifat, Y.
• Stokes, P.W.
• Van Putten, M.

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