CGSP 5.1
Text Information
- Siglum
- CGSP 5.1
- Transliteration
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l {s²}{r}
Ahmad Al-Jallad (OCIANA)
- Translation
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By {S²r}
Ahmad Al-Jallad (OCIANA)
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 3
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
CGSP 5: see under CGSP 5
OCIANA 1: M.C.A. Macdonald read l m{d}, based on old photographs, where the d has a Hismaic form.
- Commentary
The above letters are read by the edition as the end of CGSP 5. The second glyph appears to be a poorly executed S-shaped s², typical of variant 3 Safaitic. The final glyph does not correspond in a straight-forward way to any attested letter. The reading above interprets it as an r with only one hook at the top end, which is also typical of variant 3 Safaitic. In this case, the author continued the hook down to intersect with the bottom end of the lunate curve. One could also interpret it as a poorly produced m, where the bottom stroke continued pass the verticle line. This would give the name s²m, which is attested a handful of times, as compared to the name s²r, which is atteseted some 30 times (OCIANA, 30/12/2024).
- Editio Princeps
- Calzini Gysens 1987
- Field Collector
- Jacqueline Calzini Gysens
- Special Letter Forms
- s² and r or m
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Right-to-left
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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
- #0018583
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