DhSh 4.1
Text Information
- Siglum
- DhSh 4.1
- Transliteration
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b- s²ḥrt
klbt
ġlṭm
ḥbdt
Ahmad Al-Jallad - Translation
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At S²ḥrt, Klbt, Ḥbdt transgressed
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 1a
Interpretation
- Commentary
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b-s²ḥrt: The first line, which is written horizontally across the top of the columns, contains what is probably a toponym introduced by the locative preposition b-. s²ḥrt corresonds to the name of the region today, śaḥrūt.
The following three terms are difficult to interpret. Klbt is a common Semitic name. Ḥbdt is attested once more without the t as ḥbd. The present context may suggest that it should be interpreted as a name. The root is unknown in Arabic, Ethiopic, or South Arabian. The inscription is at the moment impossible to interpret.
ġlṭm: This term is attested for the first time with an m, but ġlṭ is attested in other instances. I would provisionally suggest that the -m is the 3rd masculine plural ending of the verb, here meaning 'they transgressed'. If correct, then the text would belong to the genre of public confession, a popular genre in the Haram inscriptions of the Yemeni Jawf.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- Muḥammad ʿīsā Sālim Balḥāf al-Mahrī
- Technique
- Painted
- Direction of Script
- Vertical columns right to left + horizontal
- Associated Inscriptions
- [DhSh] Dhofari inscriptions from Shaḥrūt, Yemen
- Site
- Shaḥrūt, Al Mahrah Governorate, Yemen
- Date Found
- 2025
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Place-name, Query (subject uncertain)
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