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.
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. Alison Furlong
- ASCTech
- Ohio State University
- Web Application Developer
Latest Additions
KPR_MV_Dad 3
Dadanitic
ḥgzh / bn / s¹d / yb= nʾl / w ʾḥyh / bn / w= hb / ḥyw / qymy / mg= dl / ḏġbt / ḥdṯw h- bt / w bnyw / h- m= qdr / w hn- ʾrbʿw hn- ʿlyy / l- ḏmʿl= y / f- rḍ -hm / w ʾḫrt -hm / s¹nt / ṯlṯn / w s¹= t / lḏn / bn / hnʾs¹ / s²rḥ / bn / tm / ḏ ʿbḍḍ / h- s¹fr
KPR_MV_Dad 2
Dadanitic
zyʿl / ṣnʿ ḏġbt / bny b- qds¹t / f- rḍ -h / w s¹ʿd -h bn / l- ḏmʿmh
KPR_MV_Dad 1
Dadanitic
whblh / bn / zdqny / w ʾmtlh bn / lṯmh / w gdm / bn / hẓll / w s¹ʿdʾl bn / zds²bʿn / qymy / nʿm / ḏġbt / bnyw w / ḥdṯw / qds¹t w bnyw / bt / ḏs²rh / w bt / wd w h- mḥrh w ʾfs¹w / mṯb / w rṣf / h- mqdr / l- h- ḥḍr w s²ryw / ʾrbʿ / ʾqdr / l- h- ḥḍr / w s²ryw / ml / s¹mrh bʿ / k\s¹b / rʾy / w bnyw / l- ḏmʿlh / hn- ʾrbʿwn / f- rḍ -hm ḏġbt / w ḫzn -hm s¹lmnhth / ḏġbt / w ʿmrlh mdʿh / s¹nt / ʿs²rn / w ṯtn / b- rʾy / h- nʿy l- tlmy / bn / hnʾs¹ / mlk l= ḥyn / w mn / nʿm ḏġ- bt / h- rzʾ / kll -h / ʿbny / s¹lḥ / ḏġbt h- mfʿl h- rzʾ