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Wadi Ramm, Ain esh-Shallāla. Nabataean inscriptions of masons in tabulae ansatae. Adjoining to the west: Inscription where a second and third writer continues the lines to Allāt written before by another individual (nos. 9-12). (Kieler Datenbank Naher Osten: kibidano_kibpic_00015366; Savignac 1933, Fig. 8-9. 10-12).
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... as dedications only or used for any cultic practices -as a relief of a standing stone with horn-like extensions may usually indicateremains open. 26 Slight references between several inscriptions allow for interpreting them as intentional. 27 Two invocations by different people to Allāt, for example, are written onto the rock as follow-ups ( fig. 7). 28 Another inscription seems to be the third line of one above it, which itself is the prolongation of the second line of an inscription to its right. 29 The writers might have intended to show a connection through the positioning of their inscriptions. The similarity in the letter forms and sizes of the three of them emphasises this ...
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