NI 19

Image © Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme

Siglum: NI 19
Alternative Sigla: Waddington 2267.2; Dussaud & Macler 1901: Pl XIII, 264; PUAES III.A. 747; Macdonald 2008: 328, fig. 13c; Sartre 2016: 53, no. 11
Transliteration: ΓΑΔΔΟϹ ΔΡΟΜΕΔΑΡΙϹ
Translation: Gadd [the] Dromedarius

Interpretation

Commentary: The text is carved is a peculiar way with the last two letters of ΓΑΔΔΟΣ below the first part of the name and the last five letters of ΔΡΟΜΕΔΑΡΙϹ carved above the Ε.

Provenance: This text and NI 19 are on the same rock below the north-west tower of the perimeter wall.

Associated Inscriptions

Dussaud, R. & Macler, F. Voyage archéologique au Ṣafâ et dans le Djebel ed-Drûz. Paris: Leroux, 1901.
Waddington, W.H. Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie recueillies et expliquées. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1870.
Littmann, E., Magie, D., Stuart, D.R. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904-1905 and 1909. Division III: Greek and Latin Inscriptions in Syria, Section A: Southern Syria, Part 5: Ḥaurân Plain and Djebel Ḥaurân. Leyden: Brill, 1915.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Transformation and continuity at al-Namarā: Camps, settlements, forts, and tombs. Pages 317-332 in K. Bartl & ʿA. Moaz (eds), Residences, Castles, Settlements. Transformation Processes from Late Antiquity to Early Islam in Bilad al-Sham. Proceedings of the International Conference held at Damascus, 5–9 November 2006. (Orient-Archäologie, 24). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 2008.
Sartre, M. Namāra du Ṣafā. Syria 93, 2016: 45–66.