Ναβάται

Nabatans, Nabateans

Translated by Alex Gottesman4 Dec 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 45 words
An Arabic people. "He sent [word] to [the] Arabs, the so-called Nabatans."1
Also [sc. attested is] Nabataeans, an ethnic [designation].
Nabatos, they say,2 was born in Arabia Felix.3 From some such person [sc. came the] 'Nabataeans', a people of Arabia Felix, [and the] 'Nabatene territory.'

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ναβάται· γένος Ἀράβων. ὁ δὲ πέμπει πρὸς Ἄραβας, τοὺς λεγομένους Ναβάτας. καὶ Ναβαταῖοι, ἐθνικόν. Ναβάτος φασιν Ἀ[ραβίας εὐδαίμ]ονος γενόμενος. ἐκ τοιούτου τινος Ναβαταῖοι ἔθνος τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβ[ίας] χώρα Ναβατηνή.

Betacode
*naba/tai: ge/nos *)ara/bwn. o( de\ pe/mpei pro\s *)/arabas, tou\s legome/nous *naba/tas. kai\ *nabatai=oi, e)qniko/n. *naba/tos fasin *)a[rabi/as eu)dai/m]onos geno/menos. e)k toiou/tou tinos *nabatai=oi e)/qnos th=s eu)dai/monos *)arab[i/as] xw/ra *nabathnh/.

Notes (3)

  1. See generally J.F. Healey in OCD(4) s.v. Nabataeans; Barrington Atlas map 71.
    The kingdom of the Nabataean Arabs, though centered on Petra in present-day Jordan, stretched at various times deep into present-day Saudi Arabia and (northwards) into present-day Syria.
  2. 1Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable. ↩
  3. 2This additional material comes from Stephanus of Byzantium s.v., from which the present passage, textually faulty, is supplemented. ↩
  4. 3Present-day Yemen. ↩

Neighbouring entries

ν1ΝαασώνNaason, Nahshonν2Νάβαnava, boatν3ΝαβάταιNabatans, Nabateansν4Νάβλαnabla, nablas, navlaν5ΝάβιςNabis
Revision history5 revisions · last 7 Aug 2014
  1. updated a ref — David Whitehead
  2. tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  3. augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. added note — Nicholas Fincher
  5. modified translation; added notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Alex Gottesman

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