Wādī al-Qaṭṭāfī ((c) A. Al-Jallad)
#New Is Baʿal-Samīn (the storm deity) an ʾ𝒍𝒉 𝒔̣𝒅𝒒 'a just god?' Rain-making prayers in ancestral Arabian religion and the expectation of divine 'justice' in a multipolar divine world. A extremely important #Safaitic inscription published here: shorturl.at/oJvMW.
#New on #OCIANA: The ancient Arabian divine world was populated by independent powers. The author of this #Safaitic inscription calls upon an assembly of 7 gods to save "from what Bʿls¹mn (the storm god) has unjustly wrought upon us" = 'drought'
Find more: shorturl.at/UyXCr
To the Ḥarrah and Back Again | OSU grad students discuss epigraphic fieldwork
“Visit OCIANA at ociana.osu.edu to explore the contents of the #Safaitic inscriptions”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLxx...
Pre-Islamic Arabic and Greek! The #Safaitic abecedary we posted earlier this week was far more interesting than originally thought. A close re-reading of the stone revealed the entire Safaitic alphabet in the Greek letter order!
See the study here: www.academia.edu/144853577/Al...
#Incredible ! There is good evidence that Greek literacy was relatively widespread among the ancient Arabs east of Ḥawrān. Here, our #Safaitic author partially writes out the Safaitic letters in the Greek order, omitting vowels!
Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
#NEW on #OCIANA - Drought is a major theme in the #Safaitic inscriptions. This text records a drought in the spring, during 𝒅̱𝒏𝒃 𝒅̱𝒌𝒓 (ذنب ذكر) 'the tail of Aries'! And calls upon the god Yayṯeʿ to deliver from the dry land.
ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
Arabs, Romans, and Persians, oh my!
Some 2k years ago an Arab commander named Wahballāh son of Ẓann-ʾEl led a troop with an Arab soldier called "Scorpion," a Roman called "Big Mark," and Persian called "held by Ahura Mazda." Here are their inscriptions in #Greek and #Safaitic
We saw ancient Arabs writing in Greek but what about Romans using Arabic? Perhaps an example of this is a #newly uploaded #Safaitic text to #OCIANA by a man named 𝒈𝒚𝒔̣ (Gaius) 𝒅̱ ʾ𝒍 𝒓𝒎 'of the people of Rome'.
Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
#New on #OCIANA: one of the most remarkable #Safaitic texts. Our author pastures during the #Pleiades, called the seven stars, complains abt the Evil Eye and calls upon Allāt from ʿOmān and Dushara from Raqmo (Petra) to save him.
Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
#New on #OCIANA: A #Safaitic invocation calling upon a new deity - ḏgn /ḏū genn/ 'master of the Jinn'! This along with other circumstantial evidence suggests that a belief in ginn spirits was current among the Safaitic writers some 2k ago.
Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
When did the Arabs become known as the Ishmaelites? This #Safaitic inscription records a man, who calls himself the 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔, grieving for his father. Newly updated #OCIANA card, especially the commentary - KRS 294: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions....
“From death there is no deliverance”, one of my favorite #Safaitic inscriptions. I just updated its card on the OCIANA DB with new images of the text, the site, and bibliography, along w metadata.
AMSI 41: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
A fascinating new #Safaitic inscription edited and uploaded to #OCIANA. Our man here expresses his fear of the Romans, that his fear was unceasing (lam ya’lu), and calls upon Allāt for security.
ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
#Safaitic inscription KRS 1131 carries a unique invocation to the 'One' god, ʾḥd /ʾaḥad/. See the updated card here on #OCIANA with bibliographic references
KRS 1131: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
ḥ-b-b The common Semitic root which conveys the meaning of love. In Hebrew this root was largely supplanted by the root אהב (ʔhb), but it still exists in 1 verse of the Tanakh and occasionally in the Talmud, and also probably in the name of the brother-in-law of Moses, although he was a Midianite. Modern Hebrew has also borrowed the word حبيبي (ḥabeebi) meaning “my beloved” from Arabic as חביבי with the enclitic pronoun retained. Arabic حَبَّ (ḥabba) Phoenician 𐤇𐤁 (ḥ b) Syriac ܚܰܒ݂ (ḥ b) Akkadian ḫabābu Safaitic 𐪑𐪂𐪈𐪈 (ʔ ḥ b b) Sabaic 𐩣𐩢𐩨𐩨𐩩 (m ḥ b b t) Mehri ḥəb Hebrew חָבַב (ḥabab) Ge'ez ተሐበበ (täḥäbäbä)
"love" in Semitic languages 💚
#linguistics #Arabic #Akkadian #Phoenician #Syriac #Safaitic #Sabaic #Mehri #language #philology
From: www.semiticroots.net/index.php/ro...
