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Division III Section A Part 7
an error has been made in Mr. Merrill’s copy, and that his fragment contains, not two,
but three lines, the two may be combined to read somewhat as follows:
Μαρτεΐνος . . βου [καί Σω-
σ]αν$ρος ύ[ίο](ς)· έπο[ίησαυ
Θ](ε)ώ πατρωω.
784s. Lintel. Over the door of a house in the eastern part of the town. The
stone faces west. Length 1.66 m.; height 33 cm. The letters of the inscription are
unusually well executed. Height of letters 11 cm. Copied by Butler.
Allen, Am. J. Philol. vi (1885), p. 214, no. 60.
Inscr. 7843. Scale I : 20.
Ί(ησοΰς) Χ(ρίστος) Θ(εοΰ) Τ(έος) Σ(ωτκρ).
nedjrAn.
785. Block. Built into the wall of the house of the Shekh, which fronts on the
north side of a large open space in the central part of the village, north of a tower.
The stone is above the lintel which is over the door leading to the courtyard attached
to the house, and faces south. The right end has been broken off. Length 67 cm.;
height 33 cm. The inscription is within a dovetailed frame. Length of frame, excluding
the dovetails, 48 cm., height 26 cm. Height of letters 4-41/s cm. Copied by Magie.
Savignac, R. B. n (1905), p. 96, no. 13.
Inscr. 785. Scale I : io.
AwePOCANAM
ογτοΥΓΑΡογύΑΡ H L
ivocenoi H C € bl
xy ΕΤοΥΕΔΕΥΤΕ P oYEl·
KOETOY BACIAEWE
Αρ,ερος Ανάρι-
ου του Γάρου, Σοφη-
νος,. εποίησεν
έτους δευτέρου ει-
κοστού βασΑεως....
cAmir, (son) of Anam, the (son) of Gar (or Garw), Sarenos, made (it) in (the)
twenty-second year of King
Our copy agrees with that of P. Savignac, except that the latter gives no indication
that the stone is broken.
The name of the king, in the 22d year of whose reign this inscription is dated,
was probably on the right end of the stone, under the dovetail. He was probably
Agrippa II, whose kingdom included this region; see inscriptions from Shr in the
northern Ledja (no. 797), and from Sf toward the southeast (Wad. 2365). Inscriptions
dated according to the year of Agrippa have also been found in the Hauran Plain, at
Division III Section A Part 7
an error has been made in Mr. Merrill’s copy, and that his fragment contains, not two,
but three lines, the two may be combined to read somewhat as follows:
Μαρτεΐνος . . βου [καί Σω-
σ]αν$ρος ύ[ίο](ς)· έπο[ίησαυ
Θ](ε)ώ πατρωω.
784s. Lintel. Over the door of a house in the eastern part of the town. The
stone faces west. Length 1.66 m.; height 33 cm. The letters of the inscription are
unusually well executed. Height of letters 11 cm. Copied by Butler.
Allen, Am. J. Philol. vi (1885), p. 214, no. 60.
Inscr. 7843. Scale I : 20.
Ί(ησοΰς) Χ(ρίστος) Θ(εοΰ) Τ(έος) Σ(ωτκρ).
nedjrAn.
785. Block. Built into the wall of the house of the Shekh, which fronts on the
north side of a large open space in the central part of the village, north of a tower.
The stone is above the lintel which is over the door leading to the courtyard attached
to the house, and faces south. The right end has been broken off. Length 67 cm.;
height 33 cm. The inscription is within a dovetailed frame. Length of frame, excluding
the dovetails, 48 cm., height 26 cm. Height of letters 4-41/s cm. Copied by Magie.
Savignac, R. B. n (1905), p. 96, no. 13.
Inscr. 785. Scale I : io.
AwePOCANAM
ογτοΥΓΑΡογύΑΡ H L
ivocenoi H C € bl
xy ΕΤοΥΕΔΕΥΤΕ P oYEl·
KOETOY BACIAEWE
Αρ,ερος Ανάρι-
ου του Γάρου, Σοφη-
νος,. εποίησεν
έτους δευτέρου ει-
κοστού βασΑεως....
cAmir, (son) of Anam, the (son) of Gar (or Garw), Sarenos, made (it) in (the)
twenty-second year of King
Our copy agrees with that of P. Savignac, except that the latter gives no indication
that the stone is broken.
The name of the king, in the 22d year of whose reign this inscription is dated,
was probably on the right end of the stone, under the dovetail. He was probably
Agrippa II, whose kingdom included this region; see inscriptions from Shr in the
northern Ledja (no. 797), and from Sf toward the southeast (Wad. 2365). Inscriptions
dated according to the year of Agrippa have also been found in the Hauran Plain, at