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Fragments of an early Islamic Arabic papyrus from Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān |
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| Authors: | Hannah Friedman Tasha Vorderstrasse Rachel Mairs Russell Adams |
| Affiliation: | 1. Texas Tech University, Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, Lubbock, TX, USA;2. The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA;3. Department of Classics, University of Reading, Reading, UK;4. Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| Abstract: | Excavations in 2013 at the site of Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān in the Faynān revealed several pieces of an Arabic papyrus, the first ever found in Jordan. Although the papyrus is poorly preserved, a detailed analysis of the fragments based on parallels have suggested that it dates to the late seventh/early–mid‐eighth century AD. This article discusses the papyrus fragments and places them within their papyrological and archaeological contexts. |
| Keywords: | Arabic Faynan Jordan Khirbet Hamrā Ifdā n papyrus |