Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 1. By Adnan Hadidi.

Abstract

Khirbat as-Samrā Cemetery: A Question of Dating-35 -20 th century (PPUAES II.A: 70-77; PPUAES III.A: 221-42), who recorded and identified the first fragments at Ḥallābāt, many of which have since been lost 5 . At that time it was not possible to recover the full text, other than some fragments, since the majority of the inscribed stones were hidden under the fallen ashlars of the destroyed qasr.A large number of new inscribed blocks came to light when the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, under the direction of Dr Ghazi Bisheh, undertook clearance and excavation work at Qaṣr al-Ḥallābāt between 1979 and 1984. The decipherment of these new documents was undertaken at that time by the French scholar Jean Marcillet-Jaubert, who published an expanded reading of the Greek text of the Anastasius edict.A new impetus to proceed with the reconstruction of the text was given by the excavation, restoration and museum project Qaṣr al-Ḥallābāt -from Late Antiquity to the Advent of Islam: the Excavation, Restoration and Museum Project (2002 -2013) (Ignacio Arce) 16. Anastasius Edict Part I (lines 1-100). Infographic restitution by Mr. Ignacio Moscoso.