Compared to the different fields of ancient Semitic Alphabetic epigraphy, Syriac inscriptions have never been paid the same attention. They were never evoked when the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum was elaborated1 and if Syriac inscriptions have been published when discovered, no systematic gathering had never been planned. In 1992, a project was exposed on the occasion of the Symposium Syriacum in Cambridge (UK) to publish a systematic collection of all Syriac inscriptions2. It was decided that it would be organised in volumes according to the divisions of modern countries. Since then, two volumes were undertaken which should be published quite soon. Amir Harrak collected, just in time, all the inscriptions of Iraq, for which the scientific community must be very grateful, and the authors of these lines, together with Rev. Dr. Jacob Thekeparampil, have written the volume about the inscriptions of Kerala (India)3. On the occasion of a symposium organized in Paris in 2003 and dedicated to Syriac Inscriptions, whose acts inaugurated the

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