Abstract
During a Safaitic survey conducted in the Wadi al-Khudri in the so called Black Desert a Christian Palestinian Aramaic inscription was discovered near Qaṣr Burqa at a distance of about 15 km. Burqa as an ancient Roman military post was reoccupied by monks during proto-Byzantine period. The Aramaic inscription is engraved on a rock among a Neolithic cairn; it is accompanied by a small Arabic graffito. The Aramaic text is an invocation by a diacon Stephanos one can supposed to have been in relation with Burqa Monastery.
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