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Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 15, 2010 at 07:48

And here is the 3rd line from the inscription dated 88CE to 150CE

fa kana huna adaada ghurhun la yurdia

And anyone who knows Arabic can read it as

for when a wound (of ours) festered he did not let us perish (Belamy's translation)

So did Versteegh and Belamy make up this one too?

Oh and did you contact the folks at Hebrew University with your little cockamamie theories about the Arabds and the V and B and Arab and Arabian and the no Arabs before 500BCE (Oh let me guess they dropped from the sky) and no Arabic language texts before 400CE or is it 300CE and only allahua3lam.

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