Syria (Daraa) – A basaltic-stone column was discovered on Sunday during a project aimed at moving the archaeological and architecture items to the National Museum of Daraa.Any writing from 2000 BCE would be in cuneiform, not Nabatean, and would be an unusual and highly noteworthy find. The photo is terrible, but I don't see anything on it that looks like cuneiform. My guess is that SANA misunderstood and the column is 2000 years old and bears a Nabatean (alphabetic Aramaic) inscription.
The column's height is 1, 5 meters, standing on a square base.
Secretary of Daraa National Museum Ayham al-Zoubi told SANA that the column dates back to 2000 BC, and contains ornamentations and Nabataean writings.
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Via Explorator 13.41.
UPDATE (31 January): The Nabatean city of Bosra was in Syria in the vicinity of Daraa, which is further support for my understanding of the find.
