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.

Learn more about OCIANA


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

See all our Contributors


Latest Additions

Image of BES26_HRN7 7

BES26_HRN7 8

Safaitic 1
l ḥwt bn zhmn bn wdʿ bn s²gṣ
Image of BES26_HRN7 7

BES_HRN7 7.1

Safaitic 1
l kʿmh
Image of BES26_HRN7 7

BES26_HRN7 7

Safaitic 1
h rḍw s¹ʿd f rbḥ gn bn bt bn ḥgt

Sign Up for the OCIANA Newsletter

Stay up to date with the latest news and updates from OCIANA by signing up for our newsletter.

Videos