House Complete

ID: 163

Building type: house

Context:

funerary; urban

Site:

Inscriptions:

246

Description:

Now kept at St Anne’s Church in Jerusalem, the tombstone bearing a CPA inscription was recovered in 1893 from a Circassian residence in Gerasa. Apart from this discovery context, no additional details about the structure are recorded. Despite its findspot, the piece may not originally have come from Gerasa. For further discussion, see: - Hoyland R. 2010. Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia, [in:] M.C.A. Macdonald (ed.), The development of Arabic as written language, Oxford, 29-46. - Milik J.T. 1953. Une inscription et une lettre en araméen christo-palestinien, Revue Biblique 60, 527-528. - Ronzevalle S. 1908-1909. Notes et études d'archéologie orientale, [in:] Mélanges de la Faculté orientale. Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph, t. III, Beyrouth, 27*-31* avec dessin.