The Great Flood: mythological story about a great destruction that once befell the earth. There are several variants; the Biblical version is the most famous. The possibility that there is a historical event behind the story (a local flood in southern Babylonia in the…
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The Great Flood: mythological story about a great destruction that once befell the earth. There are several variants; the Biblical version is the most famous. The possibility that there is a historical event behind the story (a local flood in southern Babylonia in the…
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Funeral inscription of Itaybel
"Itaybel" was the name of two Nabataean Arabs, grandfather and grandson, whose basalt funerary monument has been…
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On this page, you will find several ancient Nabataean inscriptions.A Deified Nabataean King
One of the three Nabataean kings named Obodas was deified as a healing god, probably Obodas I (r.96-87 BCE). How serious this cult was, is proved by an…
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