SIT 34

Siglum
SIT 34
Alternative Sigla
CEDS 603
Transliteration
l ġṯt w s²q
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Translation
By ġṯt and he tilled [the ground]
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
SIT: w s²q "and he tilled [the ground]. CEDS 603: JMAA VIII p. 5: l ġṯt ws²q "By ġṯt. He has hastened [here]".
Commentary
For the interpretation of s²q compare Classical Arabic šaqqa "he furrowed" (Lane 1576). For drawings of ploughing accompanied by Safaitic inscriptions see APSI I, 2 and 3, AWS 153, BES18 9, KEAS 1–3, KRS 1861 (= KR 7), and the discussions in Al-Khraysheh 1997 and ʿAbābnah [Ababneh] MI 2017: 41–44. See also Macdonald 2009, II: 316–317, and 2020.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Unidentifiable
Direction of Script
L-R/R-L ?

  • [CEDS] Safaitic inscriptions recorded by V.A. Clark on the Eastern Desert Survey and published here
  • [SIT] Harding, G.L. Safaitic Inscriptions from Tapline in Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 17, 1972: 5-14 and 2 unnumbered plates.
  • [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Tribes and space in the Syro-Arabian ḥarrah as revealed by the Safaitic inscriptions (ca. 1st century BC to ca. 4th century AD). Pages 189–204 in L. Nehmé (ed.), Tribus et espaces. In Semitica et Classica 13, 2020.
Site
At Km. 959 of the ARAMCO Tapline; EDS 80-16, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
Late 1960s; 1980
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0010587
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA