TM 865187
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Stable URI (with TM ID):
www.trismegistos.org/text/865187 
also known as Namara Inscription
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The Namara Inscription (TM 865187) is a 4th century basalt block with a text displaying features of both Nabataean as well as early Arabic. It is therefore an important testimony for the transition to Classical Arabic.
It is the funerary monument of an allegedly christianized Arabic king, Imru' al Qays bin 'Amr, and can be dated to AD 328. It describes Imru' al-Qays' achievements, including his military campaigns against the Sassanids, during which he (briefly) conquered Iraq and the Arabian peninsula. It also states that the nobles of the conquered tribes 'became phylarchs for the Romans'.
The stone was discovered by French archaeologists in 1901 in al-Namara in southern Syria, at the very end of the Roman Empire. The text is now kept in the Louvre.
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Date: consulate of Flavius Ianuarinus and Vettius Iustus: AD 328
Provenance: Namara (Nimra) - Syria (ArabiaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - ArabiaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
Language/script: Nabataean
Material: stone (basalt) — block
Content (beta!): funerary
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