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Headword:
*stu/pph
Adler number: sigma,1259
Translated headword: tow, oakum
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Feminine
stu/pph means the same as neuter]
sti/ppuon.[1]
Josephus [writes]: "[they] having filled the colonnade with oakum, and in addition with bitumen and pitch."[2]
But [sc. also attested is the spelling]
stupei=on.[3]
*stu/pph: to\ sti/ppuon. *)iw/shpos: plhrw/santes th\n stoa\n stu/pphs, pro\s de\ a)sfa/ltou te kai\ pi/sshs. *stupei=on de/.
Notes:
[1] See
sigma 1117 and
sigma 1260.
[2] A loose approximation of
Josephus,
Jewish War 6.178: the second clause is accurately reproduced here, but the first is
th=s e(speri/ou stoa=s to\ metacu\ tw=n dokw=n kai\ th=s u(p' au)th=s o)rofh=s u(/lhs a)napimpla=sin au)/hs "they filled up the western colonnade [sc. of the court of the Gentiles in
Jerusalem], the part between the roof-beams and the roof under them, with dry wood"; there is no mention of oakum. See web address 1.
[3] As at
sigma 1260.
Web address 1
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 April 2014@01:46:44.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (expanded n.2; another keyword; tweaking; raised status) on 11 April 2014@04:01:59.
Catharine Roth (added a link) on 21 April 2022@00:21:13.
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