Siglum: CGSP 5  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l s²ms¹{g}rm

Translation
By {s²ms¹grm}

Apparatus Criticus
CGSP 5: l {f}m{s¹} s²km l gm "di {Fms¹} s²km dei Gm" MCAM: the last three letters should be read as a separate text; the text could be read as Hismaic "l s²ms¹grm" but the s² has the Safaitic form and it seems most likely that the third letter should be emended and either "s²ms¹ṣrm" or "s²ms¹ʾrm" read for the name.

Commentary
CGSP p. 1: " at a distance of 5m 92 from the entrance on the via Stabiana almost opposite the two doorways which lead to the upper cavea of the small theatre".

For the last three letters read by CGSP see CGSP 5.1. It seems most likely that the text should be read as s²ms¹grm as zig-zag s²'s occasionally occur in Hismaic. See also CGSP 7.1.

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Italy
Site: Pompeii
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1986
Field collector: Jacqueline Calzini Gyssens
Associated Inscriptions: CGSP 1–4; 6–9

References:
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.

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