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24–30; Lewis: 1989; Smith and Bloch-Smith: 1988. For Safaitic evidence of mourning, see
Winnett and Harding.

60. See Deir ̔Alla 1:1; KAI 202, A, 12.


61. See CIS 2: 137.


62. See Ibrahim 1986: 528, dated 125 ce.


63. Stephanus 144.19–26. For the city of Obada as the location of the burial of Obadas,
    see Stephanus 482.15–16. The god ̔BDT is mentioned in the En Avdat inscription (Negev,
    Obadas) and is found in Dedanite/Lihyanite inscriptions (Sima, Inshriften 59). On the
    cult of Obadas, see Healey, Religion, 147–51 and Dijkstra, Life, 319–21.


64. See Winnett and Harding: 1679; Littman 1943: 325, 403–404.


65. See Winnnett and Harding: 1423; Origen, Philocalia 23.16.28–29; Bardesanes,
    Book 58.2.


66. See Winnett and Harding: 3696.


67. See, e.g., Jaussen and Savignac: 162, 182, 665, 692; Qudrah 1993: 160.


68. On the seven dots, see Beatrice Laura Goff, Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia
    (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963), esp. 450–54; E. Douglas Van Buren, “Symbols
    of the Gods in Mespotamian Art,” Annalecta orientalia 23 (Rome: Pontificium Institutum
    Biblicum, 1945), esp. 74–82; Hehn, “Siebenzahl und Sabbat,” LSS II, 5 (1907): 4–6, 17–27,
    44–58; Zimmern, “Die sieben Kinder Enmesarra’s,” ZA 23 (1909): 363–66; Weidner, OLZ
    22 (1919): supp. 1012; Van Buren, “The Seven Dots in Mesopotamian Art and Their Mean-
    ing,” AfO 12 (1941): 277–89.


69. Winnett and Reed: 16.


70. See Dupont-Sommer 1964: 115; Dijkstra 1995: 246.


71. I. Rabinowitz, “Aramaic Inscriptions of the Fifth Century bce from a North-Arab
    Shrine in Egypt,” JNES 15 (1956): 1–9; W. Dumbrell, “The Tell el-Maskhufla Bowls and
    the ‘Kingdom’ of Qedar in the Persian Period,” BASOR 203 (1971): 33–44.


72. See Sabaic 567: 9–10; Jaussen and Savignac, 41.


73. See Dussaud and Macler 1901: 36; Cooke: 101; Asad and Gawlikowski: 118, A
    1471/8834.


74. See Safar 1971: 3–5.


75. See Ryckmans, HUCA 23 (1950–51): 431–3; CIS 875, 852, 3946; 4359, 1658; Littman:


76. 
    


77. See Casper J. Kraemer Jr., Excavations at Nessana, vol. 3: Non-Literary Papyri
    (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958), 13, 62, 89.


78. See Aufrecht 1989, 56: 3.


79. See Winnett and Reed, 9; Jaussen and Savignac, 2: 83; Jaussen and Savignac, 82;
    Philby 1956:167.


80. See Cairo Museum 52517, 52514, 52510.


81. See Jaussen and Savignac: 64; Winnett 1937: 17.


82. See Asad an Gawlikowski 101.


83. See Hatra: 29.


84. See Cooke: 140.


85. See Winnett and Reed: 41, 42.