Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 3 - The Greek World, the Jews, and the East

 Jews and Others

Fig. . Relief of Gad of Palmyra. Yale University Art Gallery,

Dura-Europos Collection.

Table . Relief of Gad of Palmyra

Left Centre Right

(Missing) GD’ DY TDMWR ‘BD ḤY[RN] BR
MLKW BR NṢWR

BYRḤ NYSN ŠNT 

Gad of Tadmor, which Hairan son of

Maliku, son of Nasor made

In the month Nisan,

year 

decades of Parthian rule, and to consider them from a variety of points of
view, from the history of script and language to that of law and social history.
Much more complex and difficult would be the task of re-assessing all the in-
scriptions, and producing a corpus of them. But that very process would, as
always, run the danger of divorcing this verbal material from the physical and
monumental contexts to which it belongs. It would be in many ways a yet