CGSP 5

Siglum
CGSP 5
Transliteration
l s²ms¹{g}rm
OCIANA
Translation
By {S²ms¹grm}
OCIANA
Language and Script
Mixed Safaitic/Hismaic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus

CGSP 5: l {f}m{s¹} s²km l gm "di {Fms¹} s²km dei Gm". 

For the last three letters read by CGSP see CGSP 5.1

Commentary

This text seems to have been carved in a mixed Safaitic-Hismaic hand. The name can only be S²ms¹grm (Shamsigeram), but the fourth glyph of the name cannot be read as a Safaitic g. While it has been partially effaced, the top end is visibly a loop; the bottom end, however, appears to have been a fork which was secondarily closed to produce the barbell glyph, resulting in a rather ill-carved Hismaic g.

 

Editio Princeps
Calzini Gysens 1987
Field Collector
Jacqueline Calzini Gysens

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Right-to-left

  • Calzini Gysens, J. Graffiti safaitici a Pompei. Dialoghi di Archeologia 1, 1987: 107-117, fig. 1-4.
  • [CGSP] Calzini Gysens, J. Safaitic Graffiti from Pompeii. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 20, 1990: 1–7.
Site
Pompeii, on the plaster of the northern wall of the corridor behind the theatres (Regio VIII, insula 7), Italy
Date Found
1986
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Old OCIANA ID
#0018582
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Updated 30 Dec, 2024 by Ahmad Al-Jallad