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

它的目的是重建一个具有很高历史价值的墓志铭。它应该规范拜占庭帝国在中东的边境保护。关于修复文字空白的重要问题必须解决，以及铭文在Umm id-Djimal的建筑结构中的可见性，铭文一直显示在该建筑结构上，直到被公元551年的地震摧毁。它涉及到对材料进行文献学和历史分析的基础研究。合作伙伴Denis Feissel(巴黎)是研究这一铭文的语言学学者，他只是在2013年12月在约旦短暂停留时才熟悉出处。出于这个原因，他强烈依赖于了解这个地方的考古学家的合作。大量刻有铭文的道具被泥瓦匠沿着边界重新切割，作为战利品在Qasr al-Hallabat进行回收。出于这个原因，文本的流畅在许多点上被打断。另一个问题是，美国金石学家或已故马西莱-乔伯特的遗产记录的一些测量数据被证明是错误的。由此产生的文字空白和扭曲只能通过精确地重新测量字母及其在原始区块上的距离来纠正。根据准确的预测，第一节(第1部分，第1-101行)中的相当一部分文本已经被牢牢地取回。通过对铭文块垂直接缝表面的彻底检查，进一步指出，铭文是通过窗户或门道与原来的陈列建筑相交的。这种三维的具体调查不能以照片为基础。只有对今天分散在不同地点的原始铭文块进行准确的铸造，才能通过三维比较研究得出它们的组装结果。为了用所描述的方法检查第一部分(第二部分，第102-136行)和第二部分，需要用硅模和铸件复制30个块。对2006年推土机不小心堆积的三个垃圾堆的预期检查，可能会产生更多未知的区块和毗邻的碎片。

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.