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Nabataean sepulchral inscriptions from El-Ḥejra in the El-Ḥejraejaz, 40 miles south of Teima and 300 miles S.S.E. of Petra, frequently mention the Nabateaans and Shalamians. The Aramaic-Nabataean inscriptions may be found in Professor Cooke's North Semitic Inscriptions, Nos. 78–109, and Professor Lidbarski's Nordsemitische Epigraphik, pp. 448–457. In them occur the names of the old Arabic deities, Dūsharā of Petra, Manūthu, a goddess of Qudaid in the southern Ḥejaz south of Medīna, Qaishā, Allat, principal goddess of the Arabians, and Hubalu of Mekka. According to Hommel, Grundriss, 715, n. 1, Allat may have been the principal deity of the Shalamians, but this is uncertain, and the exact location of this tribe is unknown. The “Shalamians” occur in three tomb inscriptions from El-Ḥejra, Cooke, ibid., 79 (1 b.c.), No. 81 (a.d. 4), No. 86 (a.d. 26).
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page 529 note 3 Hommel, , Grundriss der Geographie und Geschichte des Alten Orients 715Google Scholar, follows Wellhausen and reads this name as a plural, Manawātu(n).
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. The former is clearly the correct writing and excludes Winckler's reading qaisha “her husband”, i.e. husband of Manuthu; Winckler and Hommel assert that Ḫubalu was the husband of Manuthu.
page 530 note 1 Smith, Sydney, Babylonian Historical Texts, pp. 84 and 111Google Scholar.
page 530 note 2 ANSU-A-AB-BA.
page 530 note 3 Dougherty, R. P., Archives from Erech, No. 294, and pp. 34–5Google Scholar.
page 530 note 4 See the writer's Neubabylonische Königsinschriften, p. 13.
page 530 note 5 Yale Oriental Series, vi, 134.
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page 531 note 1 Clermont-Ganneau, made the same suggestion in Recueil d'Archéologie Orientate, v (1905), 128 f.Google Scholar Reference given me by Professor Cooke.
page 531 note 2 See Streck, , Assurbanipal, iii, 792Google Scholar.
page 531 note 3 Hommel believes that Canticles 1, 5 (last two words) contains a later gloss.
page 531 note 4 Published in 1893.
page 531 note 5 Hommel also finds the same word in Canticles, 7, 1, “The Shulamite,” but does not explain the etymological form.
page 532 note 1 This ending (
) for un, un occurs almost regularly at the end of N.Pra. in Nabatean texts from Sinai.
page 532 note 2 The reference to Noeldeke by Professor Cooke.
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