What’s new in DiCoNab?

  1. The first Nabataean papyrus to be entered in DiCoNab, by John F. Healey, P.Yadin 36
    • P.Yadin 36, from Naḥal Ḥever, so-called ‘Starcky papyrus’, dated 59–68 CE, https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/621
    02/04/2025
  2. Thirteen important Nabataean texts newly entered in DiCoNab, from Al-Namārah (Syria) to Tall al-Shuqāfiyyah (Egypt)!
    Texts entered by John F. Healey and Michael C.A. Macdonald.
    • CGNE(a) 1, Tall al-Shuqāfiyyah: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/618 (by M.C.A. Macdonald)
    • DMNab 20, Al-Namārah, 332 CE: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/616 (by M.C.A. Macdonald)
    • JNISh 1, Tall al-Shuqāfiyyah, 35/34 BCE: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/633 (by M.C.A. Macdonald)
    • MIR 1, Ruwāfah temple bilingual Nabataean and Greek: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/635 (by M.C.A. Macdonald)
    • MIR 4, Ruwāfah temple: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/662 (by M.C.A. Macdonald)
    • MIR 5, Ruwāfah temple: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/655 (by M.C.A. Macdonald)
    • SNNI 1, 356 CE text from al-Ḥijr, so-called ‘Stiehl’: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/775 (by M.C.A. Macdonald)

    • ARNANab 16, Dūmat al-Jandal, 26/27 CE: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/614 (by John F. Healey)
    • CIS II 196, Mādābā, 37/38 CE: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/615 (by John F. Healey)
    • CIS II 332, Al-ʿUlā Old Town, 9/8 BCE: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/613 (by John F. Healey)
    • MPNab 5, Petra Bāb as-Sīq bilingual funerary inscription    : https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/612 (by John F. Healey)
    • MPNab 610, Petra, Qabr al-Turkmān legal text: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/611 (by John F. Healey)
    02/04/2025
  3. In March 2025, Josef Bloomfield, DPhil Oriental Studies Research Student at Oxford, joined the DiCoNab team.
    02/04/2025
  4. New distinguished scholar joined the DiCoNab team
    John Healey, Professor Emeritus of Semitic Studies, The University of Manchester, and Fellow of the British Academy, joined the DiCoNab team as an active member in January 2025.
    23/01/2025
  5. New Nabataean strategoi
    Two new inscriptions recently added to DiCoNab mention strategoi and other Nabataean officials, one from Wādī al-Ṣuwaydirah near Medina and one from Wādī al-Ṣurayyit (Abū Ṭāqah station), 25 km north-west of Hegra:
    23/01/2025
  6. Nabataean and Developing Arabic inscriptions from Wādī al-Ṣuwaydirah added to DiCoNab
    Thirteen inscriptions—among which eleven new ones—from Wādī al-Ṣuwaydirah, a site located ca 60 km east-north-east of Medina, were added to DiCoNab.
    In order to display them, click on https://diconab.huma-num.fr/sites/1361 and see the list of related texts.
    Alternatively, search in the INSCRIPTIONS for “Siglum letter” contains “UM022”.
    23/01/2025
  7. Join the team!
    If you would like to join the DiCoNab team and contribute to it by adding new inscriptions or entering previously published inscriptions, please contact Dr. Laïla Nehmé at laila.nehme@cnrs.fr
    23/01/2025