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A Unique and Early Use of Micrographic Carpet Page Format 31*

41[‫יו[צאות לשאב ]מים ואמרו[ להן היש בזה הר]אה[ ותעננ]ה‬40 - ]
[‫ ]ותאמרנה[ יש הנה לפניך מהר עתה כי היום בא לעי]ר‬25

Note the instances of plene orthography along with examples of defective
:orthography

Plene orthography (seg o l, tse ire h , h iriq ): ,‫ מיתחלף‬342,‫ אילא‬,‫ ריבון‬,‫ניס‬
‫ ומיכף‬,‫ כניגדו‬,‫מיתפלל‬.
Defective orthography (h o la m a n d s h u ru q /q u b b u ts): ,‫ איביו‬,‫ הפצה‬,‫אתו‬
‫ כשית‬,‫ צפרה‬,‫אדות‬.43

Appendix 2: Scriptural verses and layout of the carpet page
This appendix contains the following items:

1 . The scriptural verses of the border frame44
2 . The scriptural verses of the inner micrographic design
3. Figure 3: ENA 2630.1r: Micrographic carpet, keyed to passage

tables
4. ENA 2630 1r: Micrographic carpet page diagram

40 There is space for one or two letters; the masoretic text reads: ‫נעוות‬.
41 Masoretic text adds: ‫אותם‬.
42 This is a sign ofBabylonian rabbinic Hebrewand Aramaic pronunciation and orthography, as

opposed to Palestinian (although Babylonian texts may contain the standardised form ‫)אלא‬.
See Y. Kutscher, Hebrew andAramaic Studies, Z. Ben-Hayyim et al. (eds.) (Jerusalem 1977)
[Hebrew], p. 192; Y. Yeivin, The HebrewLanguage Tradition as Reflectedin the Babylonian
Vocalization (Jerusalem 1985) [Hebrew], pp. 1117-1118; Y. Breuer, The Hebrew in the
Babylonian Talmud According to the Manuscripts of Tractate Pesahim (Jerusalem 2002)
[Hebrew], p. 52 and nn. 203-204; and M. Morgenstern, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic in
Geonic Responsa (Ph.D. dissertation, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002) [Hebrew],
p. 38.
43 All except ‫ הפצה‬are masoretic spellings.
44 Translation of Biblical passages supplied fromthe 1917 Jewish Publication Society edition.