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Art. XII.—On the Inscriptions found in the region of El-Hârrah, in the Great Desert South-east and East of the Haurân

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

Cyril C. Graham
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In the following pages I propose, first, to give a short account of the locality in which the remarkable inscriptions which accompany this memoir were found, and of the circumstances which led to their discovery, and then to offer a few remarks on the nature of the inscriptions themselves, and of the method I have employed in endeavouring to decipher them.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 17 , January 1860 , pp. 286 - 297
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1860

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References

page 286 note * “Five Years in Damascus.”

page 287 note * I must refer the reader who wishes to examine the geography of the Haurân, to Mr. Porter's map in the work before cited, or to the map appended to my memoir in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society for 1859, or to Kiepert's map of Palestine.

page 290 note * Written and es-Safâh

† Basrah of the Haurân; I mean the place written indiscriminately and although the former is no doubt correct, corresponding with the Hebrew

1 “Das Etruskische als semitische Sprache.” Leipzig, 1858Google Scholar.

The works referred to in this memoir, and which the reader may find it interesting to consult, are Rödiger “Versuch uber die Himyaritischen Schriftmonumente,” Halle, 1841. Wellsted “Travels in Arabia,” translated by Rödiger, with an essay on the Himyari language. Tuch “Sinaitische Inschriften,” in the Zeitschrift der Dėutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Dritter Band; Heft ii., part 1, 1849. Sinaitic Inscriptions, published by the Royal Society of Literature, vol. ii., part 1, 1832. Gesenius “Phönizien.” Ewald, “Uber die Grosse Phönizische Inschrift von Sidon, &c,” Gottingen, 1856Google Scholar. ”Five Years in Damascus,” by Rev. J. L. Porter. “Travels in Syria,” Burckhardt. Seetzen's Travels. Wallin's, route in Arabia, , in the Journal of Royal Geographical Society, vol. xx., part 2, 1851Google Scholar; and my own Memoir of my Travels East of the Hauran in the vol. for 1859.