tpgaz across the Syrian desert into the : of people: Taienians, of Arabia and in the northern of an Arabia encom- of the oldest extant texts in Syriac is a description of the customs and laws of dif- of the Syrian philosopher and gnostic of his disciples and of Hatra in 241. Apart from a Syriac version, we have sev-

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ABSTRACT

Diamerism,,0s is that the area from the northern tpgaz across the Syrian desert into the northern Gazira was inhabited by several different groups of people: Taienians, Salamusians, Saracens and others. arabes are found in the Gazira in the ancient Parthian province of Arabia and in the northern ijigaz. These Arabs appear to be quite small groups limited to these geographic areas. There is no trace of an Arabia encompassing the entire peninsula inhabited by Arabs.