KMI 6-7
Text Information
- Siglum
- KMI 6-7
- Transliteration
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nmml br s²hm
nbrt ḥyw -hnAhmad Al-Jallad - Translation
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Nmml son of S²hm; may life be elevated
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 1a
Interpretation
- Commentary
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nmml: This name is unattested in ANA. It is possible that the alif has been elided and we are dealing an elistic theophoric name, nmmʾl.
s²hm: This is a well-attested North Arabian name, common in Safaitic.
nbrt: Al-Jallad 2025d provisionally understood this as a verb, nbr, to be elevated.
ḥyw -hn: The element ḥyw is common in Dhofari formulae and clearly has to do with 'life'. The final two letters hn could be understood as the South Arabian suffixing definite article. The use of the -hn form may suggest that ḥyw is a plural or that, like Ḥaḍramitic, the form with the h was used with singular nouns as well.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- Al-Shaḥrī and King 1993
- Field Collector
- G.M.H. King and A.A.M. Al-Shaḥrī
- Technique
- Pecked
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal lines left to right
- Al-Jallad, A. The Decipherment of the Dhofari Script: Three halḥam abecedaries and the first glimpses into the corpus. Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux (JEOL) 49, 2025d.
- Al-Shaḥrī, A.A.M. & King, G.M.H. The Dhofar Epigraphic Project. A Description of the Inscriptions recorded in 1991 and 1992. [Unpublished but available on http://www.ancientarabia.co.uk/ under "Projects"/"Dhofar epigraphic project".] 1993.
- Site
- Area I - the Negd in the western region, Dhofar Governorate, Oman
- Date Found
- 1991-1992
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Prayer
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Updated
15 Jul, 2025
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Al-Jallad, Ahmad. 'KMI 6-7.' OCIANA. 15 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45796. Accessed: 16 Aug, 2025.