SIT 34

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.

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.
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.
Safaitic inscriptions recorded by V.A. Clark on the Eastern Desert Survey and published here
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