The military edict of the emperor Anastasios I from al-Hallabat. Archaeological investigations for the epigraph restitution of a Byzantine administrative text of the 5./6. cent. A.D. from Jordan

目的是重建一个具有较高历史价值的碑文。它应该规范拜占庭帝国在中东的边境保护。必须解决关于文本缺口的恢复以及在乌姆伊德-贾比尔的一个建筑结构上的铭文可见性的方式的重要问题，该铭文一直显示在该建筑结构上，直到公元551年的地震摧毁。它涉及对材料进行语言学和历史分析的基础研究。合作伙伴Denis Feissel（巴黎）是处理这一铭文的语言学者，他仅在2013年12月在约旦短暂停留后就熟悉了铭文的出处。出于这个原因，他强烈依赖与一位了解这个地方的考古学家的合作。大量刻有铭文的石砾被泥瓦匠们沿着边界重新沿着切割，作为战利品在Qasr al-Hallabat回收。由于这个原因，文本的流动在许多地方被打断。另一个问题是由于这样一个事实，即一些测量数据记录的美国epigraphists或遗赠的已故Marcillet-Jaubert被证明是错误的。由此产生的文字空白和扭曲只能通过精确重新测量字母及其在原始块上的距离来纠正。根据准确的模型，第一节（第1部分，第1-101行）的相当大一部分案文已经被可靠地检索出来。通过对铭文块垂直接缝表面的彻底检查，进一步表明铭文是通过窗户或门口装饰在原始建筑物上的。这种三维的具体调查不能根据照片进行。只有对今天分散在不同地点的原始铭文块进行精确的铸造，才能通过三维的比较研究得出结论性的结果。为了通过所描述的方法检查第I部分（第2部分，第102-136行）和第II部分，需要通过硅模具和铸件复制30个块。对2006年推土机不小心堆积的三个垃圾堆进行的检查可能会产生更多未知的块体和相邻的碎片。

It is the aim to reconstruct an epigraph of high historic value. It should regulate the border protection of the Byzantine empire in the Middle East. Important problems concerning the restitution of textual gaps must be resolved as well as the manner of the inscriptions visibility at an architectural structure in Umm id-Djimal on which the inscription has been displayed until its destruction by the earthquake of 551 AD. It concerns basic research for a philological and historical analysis of the material. The cooperation partner Denis Feissel (Paris), the philological scholar dealing with this inscription, got acquainted with the site of provenance only by a short stay at Jordan in December 2013. For this reason, he strongly relies on the cooperation with an archaeologist knowing the place. A large number of inscriptional ashlars had been re-cut along their borders by the masons for their recycling as spoils in the Qasr al-Hallabat. For this reason, the flow of the text is interrupted at many points. An additional problem is due to the fact, that some of the measure data documented by the American epigraphists or by the bequest of the late Marcillet-Jaubert proved to be wrong. The resulting textual lacunae and distortions can only be corrected by a precise re-measurement of letters and their distances on the original blocks. Basing on exact casts considerable portions of the text in section I (part 1, lines 1-101) have been already firmly retrieved. By the thorough examination of the surfaces in the vertical joints of the inscription blocks it was further stated that the inscription was intersected on the original building of display by a window or a doorway. Such specific investigations in three dimensions cannot be undertaken on the basis of photographs. Only exact casts of the original inscription blocks which are dispersed today over different locations may lead in their assemblage to conclusive results by comparative study in three dimensions. In order to examine Sections I (part 2, lines 102-136) and II by the described method, 30 blocks need to be copied by silicon moulds and casts. The intended examination of three dump heaps which were carelessly accumulated in 2006 by bulldozing, may produce further not yet known blocks and adjoining fragments.