L’ère de la libération d’Édesse

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Jean-SylvainCaillouSimonBrelaudL’ère de la libération d’Édessehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/YM99PPW9https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/YM99PPW9https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/YM99PPW9Syria932016321-338Although relatively few inscriptions mentioning a date have been found on the modern-day site of the ancient city of Edessa and its surroundings, they do allow us to study the complexity of dating systems in the Ancient Middle East. Seleucid Era was widely used as a dating system in the area from the Hellenistic Period. But during the Roman rule over Edessa and Osrhoena (2nd and 3rd cent.), several inscriptions and handwritten documents attest a local era, used as a dating system. Thus, the present article seeks to demonstrate the use of the “liberation era” as a dating system in Edessa, which began in 213 ad. Until now, scholars have dated 3rd-cent. inscriptions found in and around Edessa whose dates comprise only two digits according to the Seleucid era dating system. Rubens Duval’s intuition was that the digits referring to the hundreds had been omitted. However, we refute Duval’s interpretation, by showing that the Edessean inscriptions do not confirm the previous intuition. We should therefore review the dating of several inscriptions and handwritten documents from Edessa and its region. Caillou, Jean-Sylvain, and Simon Brelaud. “L’ère de La Libération d’Édesse.” Syria 93 (2016): 321–38. Jean-Sylvain Caillou and Simon Brelaud, L’ère de La Libération d’Édesse, Syria 93 (2016): 321–38.EdessaI-III CEIII CERoman Syriaarchaeologycalendarchronologyinscriptions [Syriac]