h lt s¹lm l-mn ʾġrb w l-mn ʾs²rq

‘O Allāt, peace to those who go west and to those who go east’

(Safaitic inscription SIJ 788.1)

Welcome to OCIANA

The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia [OCIANA] is a digital corpus of all known Ancient North Arabian inscriptions in North and Central Arabia, and elsewhere.

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Scientific Directors and Editors

Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad

  • Professor and Sofia Chair of Arabic
  • Ohio State University
  • Scientific Director and Project Manager

Michael C.A. Macdonald

  • Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
  • Fellow of the British Academy
  • Scientific Director

Project Managers

Dr. James D. Moore

  • Assistant Professor
  • Ohio State University
  • Project Manager

Dr. Alison Furlong

  • ASCTech
  • Ohio State University
  • Web Application Developer

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Latest Additions

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BES26_HRN4 22

Safaitic 1
l ṯlm bn gḥfl bn ʿtq bn ʿḏr h- lṣ
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BES26_HRN4 21

Safaitic 1
l ḍhd bn ḍhd bn ṣrm bn ʿbdmt bn ḍhd bn ʿs¹b
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BES26_HRN4 20

Safaitic 1
l drbt bn s²ʿb h- ẓlt

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