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W. J. Bankes and the Identification of the Nabataean Script - Khalili ...

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90 N.N. LEWIS <strong>and</strong> M.C.A. MACDONALD<br />

Syria 80 (2003)<br />

Moreover, in <strong>the</strong> draft journal, immediately after his description <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tomb with <strong>the</strong> door in <strong>the</strong> attic, <strong>Bankes</strong><br />

writes, > It appears<br />

from this that <strong>Bankes</strong> himself at first thought that he had seen an effaced <strong>Nabataean</strong> (not Greek) inscription on<br />

a tomb near <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>atre.<br />

What may have happened is that, between writing <strong>the</strong> draft journal <strong>and</strong> dictating <strong>the</strong> final version, <strong>Bankes</strong><br />

decided that what he had thought was an effaced <strong>Nabataean</strong> text was not in fact an inscription at all. At <strong>the</strong> same<br />

time, his companions may, independently, have noticed <strong>the</strong> apparent text, which <strong>the</strong>y also said was

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