KMA 12-16

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Siglum
KMA 12-16
Transliteration
l- s¹rʿh
l- ʾls¹q---
ʾhmm
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Translation
For S¹rʿh
For ʾls¹q----
are worries
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Language and Script
Dhofari 1a

Interpretation

Commentary

The panel consists of five lines of text but only three are legible. The first two are names introduced by the preposition l-. 

s¹rʿh: The name s¹rʿ is attested some six times in Safaitic and has to do with speed and sprightliness. The final h should probably be interpreted as a suffixed pronoun, which sometimes occurs on names in ANA.

ʾls¹q----: This name is incomplete and may be one and the same as the fragmentary name attested in KMA 5-7.

 

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Editio Princeps
Al-Shaḥrī and King 1993
Field Collector
G.M.H. King and A.A.M. Al-Shaḥrī

Technique
Painted
Direction of Script
Vertical columns right to left

  • 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: 119-147
  • 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 [Unpublished but available on http://www.ancientarabia.co.uk/ under "Projects"/"Dhofar epigraphic project".] 1993.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 A - To the west of the Ṭeeṭam road, Dhofar Governorate, Oman
Date Found
1991-1992
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Name only, Query (subject uncertain)
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Updated 15 Sep, 2025 by Ahmad Al-Jallad

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Al-Jallad, Ahmad. 'KMA 12-16.' OCIANA. 15 Sep, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45832. Accessed: 20 Feb, 2026.