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A new Negev Arabic inscription

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Yehuda D. Nevo
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In the Northern Church of the Negev town whose name has been preserved by the local Arabs as Ruḥeibe, on a flagstone still in situ in the south-westernpart of the atrium, Loc. 523, the following inscription was carefully and clearly inscribed:

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , February 1989 , pp. 18 - 23
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1989

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