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22* Gideon Bohak and Matthew Morgenstern

8 on the circles of their navels; the troop ‫ גיסנא‬43‫בקופי שיריהי‬
F24
on the (???)44 of its servants ‫בשופי דטליה‬
4F3
‫שפיה פ'ב'פ' וקבאל בי חן‬
9 smeared it. NN, in front of the house of ‫דמתא ותו‬
love(?) of the town; and furthermore,
‫מא ֿומציהו ניכלון ומיכסיהו‬
10 from their meat let them (give me to) eat ‫נשקיון‬

and from their cup let them give me to ‫דאמינא אנא נימרו ושמינא‬
drink,4F45 ‫נשמעו‬

11 what I say they let them say and what I ‫א' א' ס' ק' כל ראש ירחא‬
'‫מידהוי ב‬
hear 46 let them hear
45F

12 A(men) A(men) S(ela). Say at the
beginning of the month when it is the
second (day)

Folio 2a ‫בירחא וחד מי אחרנה אולשי‬
1 of the month and one of its other days, 47[‫וא ֿמ]ר‬

first of all, sa[y] F46
2 seven times, each day three times. From
‫ז' זמני כל יומא תלת זמני‬
‫ מן‬0–0

42 ‫ גנסק‬might be a Persian loanword for “orchis, testicle,” apparently employed
euphemistically for both male and female pudenda. See Claudia A. Ciancaglini,
Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 2008), 138.

43 Lege: ‫שוריהי‬. Cf. below, 3a:8.

44 The reading ‫ שופי‬is certain, but we are unable to propose a suitable interpretation.

45 Since ‫ נשקיון‬is a transitive verb bearing the 1 c.s. object suffix (n < -ni; contrast the
following verbs ‫נימרו‬, “let them say,” and ‫נשמעו‬, “let them hear,” without the final
n), we should similarly understand ‫ ניכלון‬as representing a minor scribal error for
‫נוכלון‬, “let them give to eat.”

46 Here ‫ שמינא‬appears in place of regular JBA ‫שמענא‬. On the morphological shift of
III-ʿayin to III-yod in JBA, see Morgenstern, Studies, 63–64.

47 The reading of the last two words is uncertain, and their meaning is unclear.