Ṣafāʾitic is a variety of the South Semitic scripts used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan between 100 BCE and 400 CE to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic. The attached photos are of a pot made of volcanic rock donated to the National Museum of Damascus in 1973; it measures 16 × 12 × 9.5 cm and carries a Ṣafāʾitic text naming eight women longing for a person or a place called Alba. According to the author, the pot and its inscription belong to the 5th or 6th century CE.
Provenance: al-Matāʿīyā.
Photo credit: Marwān Mesilmānī.
ʿAlī ʾabū ʿAssāf. Kitābāt Ṣafawīyyā ǧadīdā fī matḥafayy Dimašq wa Tadmur. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes XXV 1975 (pp. 141-150).
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