Sentence:  An isolated ostracon has turned up in Germany,2 but otherwise there is nothing comparable to the geographic spread of the Nabataean and, above all, the <WSD>Palmyrene</WSD> inscriptions, the latter spanning from South Shields (in northern England) to Soqotra. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A Western Aramaic dialect spoken in the city of Palmyra in the early centuries CE.