Les inscriptions nabatéennes du Hawrân

42 pages, dont 5 cartes et deux tableauxInternational audienceThis article offers a synthesis on the Nabataean inscriptions of the Hawrân, in southern Syria. It starts with a presentation of the available documentation and of the history of the Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum. It then presents the inscriptions (number of texts, provenance, typology) and the script. Following this, five inscriptions are published for the first time. Three of them mention a nefesh (one of which is dated to the reign of Aretas IV), one mentions a hmnʾ (dotted h, "chapel") devoted to the god Baalshamîn and is dated to the reign of Rabbel II and finally one mentions a mhrmt' (dotted h, temenos) devoted to Dushara and written during the reign of the same Rabbel. The article contains two tables: a complete table of the Nabataean inscriptions from the Hawrân, site by site, and a full concordance of these inscriptions in the collections of inscriptions published since the 19th century. Finally, several maps show the distribution of the texts in the villages according to their type, date, content, etc