Safaitic
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Safaitic is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic a
Safaitic script with a figure of a camel on a red sandstone fragment, from es-Safa, currently housed in the British Museum
Harrat al-Sham
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The Ḥarrat al-Shām, also known as the Harrat al-Harra or Harrat al-Shaba, and sometimes the Black Desert in English, is a region of rocky, basaltic desert straddling southern Syrian region and the nor
Safaitic
…Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّة Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. The Safaitic script is a member of the Ancient North…
The Harrat near Jawa in eastern Jordan
Harrah region from the Space Shuttle