Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Site of Palmyra' has mentioned 'Aramaic' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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The city's social structure was tribal, and its inhabitants spoke Palmyrene (a dialect of Aramaic), while using Greek for commercial and diplomatic purposes. | WIKI |
[2] Aramaic Palmyrene inscriptions themselves showed two variants of the name; TDMR (i.e., Tadmar) and TDMWR (i.e., Tadmor). | WIKI |
Further information: Palmyrene Aramaic and Palmyrene alphabet | WIKI |
Palmyra's population was a mixture of the different peoples inhabiting the city,[59][60] which is seen in Aramaic, Arabic and Amorite names of Palmyrene clans,[note 4][61] but the ethnicity of Palmyra is a matter of debate. | WIKI |
Until the late third century AD, Palmyrenes spoke Palmyrene Aramaic and used the Palmyrene alphabet. | WIKI |
[75] The archaeologist Karol Juchniewicz ascribed it to a change in the ethnic composition of the city, resulting from the influx of people who did not speak Aramaic, probably a Roman legion. | WIKI |
This scenario can explain the usage of Aramaic by the Elephantine Jews, and Papyrus Amherst 63, while not mentioning Palmyra, refers to a "fortress of palms" that is located near a spring on a trade route in the fringes of the desert, making Palmyra a plausible candidate. | WIKI |
Inscription in Greek and Aramaic honoring the strategos Zabdilas, whose Roman name was Julius Aurelius Zenobius, dated 242-243 AD. | WIKI |