DJJ 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- DJJ 1
- Transliteration
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s³ḥbn
br mṭy l- hl
s²kdAhmad Al-Jallad and Nasser Al-Jahwari - Translation
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S³ḥbn son of Mṭy of the family of S²kd
Ahmad Al-Jallad and Nasser Al-Jahwari
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 1a
Interpretation
- Commentary
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The inscriptoin is carved on a loose stone, found near a trilith.
s³ḥbn: This name is unattested in ANA but the root is attested in Ancient South Arabian meaning 'to ruin', or 'to pull, drag' in Arabic.
mṭy: Mṭy is an extremely common name in ANA, attested some 78 times already in OCIANA. It derives from the root mṭy, meaning to journey on a beast.
l-hl: The meaning of this sequence is provisional for now. The present context could suggest that it introduces a lineage name. If so, then hl could be a reflex of ʾahl- 'family' with the loss of the glottal stop, preceded by the dative preposition.
s²kd: If the above reading is correct, then s²kd would be a family name. The root in Arabic means 'to give (a gift)' (Lane, 1583c-1584), compare with the common name wahb, with the same meaning.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- Al-Jahwari 2018
- Field Collector
- Nasser S. Al-Jahwari
- Technique
- Hammered
- Direction of Script
- Vertical columns right to left
- Associated Remains
- Trilith
- [DJJ] Al-Jahwari, N.S. ‘Rock Inscription from the Area of Ja'alan Bani Bu Hasan: Sultanate of Oman’, Journal of Arts & Social Sciences (Sultan Qaboos University), 2018, 9(2): pp. 97–110.
- 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.
- [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Site
- Ǧaʿlān banī bū ḥasan, Ǧanūb al-Šarqiyyah Governate, Oman
- Date Found
- 2011
- Current Location
- Unknown
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Lineage
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