This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western
Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-'Ula in the
northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first
centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language
of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is
the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic
variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough
description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical
analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual
genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations
between language-internal and extralinguistic features this
analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic
object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture
emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate
use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.
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