Nabataeans or ituraeans in mount lebanon? : about the Aramaic inscription of Yanouh

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This article presents the Aramaic inscription found in Yanouḥ, high mountains of Byblos-Lebanon, in the year sixties of the last century.

i try to highlight the cultural influence of the Nabataeans who extended to Hauran and around Damascus during the Greco-Roman period.

the article treat various questions : how does one explain the unique presence of this inscription in mount Lebanon? what was the cultural and political influence of the Nabataeans towards north-west Syria? has this inscription been written by Nabataeans, or by other populations : did the Ituraeans use or adopt their writing system?