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Volume 28 | Monograph | Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions

Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions

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Giuseppe Petrantoni - Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”, Italia - email

Abstract

The impact of the Hellenization in the Ancient Near East resulted in a notable presence of Greek koiné language and culture and in the interaction between Greek and Nabataean that conducted inhabitants to engrave inscriptions in public spaces using one of the two languages or both. In this questionably ‘diglossic’ situation, a significant number of Nabataean-Greek inscriptions emerged, showing that the koiné was employed by the Nabataeans as a sign of Hellenistic cultural affinity. This book offers a linguistic and philological analysis of fifty-one Nabataean-Greek epigraphic evidences existing in northern Arabia, Near East and Aegean Sea, dating from the first century BCE to the third-fourth century CE. This collection is an analysis of the linguistic contact between Nabataean and Greek in the light of the modalities of social, religious and linguistic exchanges. In addition, the investigation of onomastics (mainly the Nabataean names transcribed in Greek script) might allow us to know more about the Nabataean phonological system.

Keywords Diglossia • Ancient Near East • Greek • Nabataean Aramaic • Epigraphy

Copyright © 2021 Giuseppe Petrantoni. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Aegean Sea
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dc.identifier	ECF_book_487
dc.creator	Petrantoni Giuseppe
dc.title	Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The impact of the Hellenization in the Ancient Near East resulted in a notable presence of Greek koiné language and culture and in the interaction between Greek and Nabataean that conducted inhabitants to engrave inscriptions in public spaces using one of the two languages or both. In this questionably ‘diglossic’ situation, a significant number of Nabataean-Greek inscriptions emerged, showing that the koiné was employed by the Nabataeans as a sign of Hellenistic cultural affinity. This book offers a linguistic and philological analysis of fifty-one Nabataean-Greek epigraphic evidences existing in northern Arabia, Near East and Aegean Sea, dating from the first century BCE to the third-fourth century CE. This collection is an analysis of the linguistic contact between Nabataean and Greek in the light of the modalities of social, religious and linguistic exchanges. In addition, the investigation of onomastics (mainly the Nabataean names transcribed in Greek script) might allow us to know more about the Nabataean phonological system.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi orientali
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-507-0
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-04-26
dc.dateAccepted	2021-03-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-01-11
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-508-7/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-508-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-507-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ancient Near East
dc.subject	Diglossia
dc.subject	Epigraphy
dc.subject	Greek
dc.subject	Nabataean Aramaic
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