DS 47 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- DS 47 1
- Transliteration
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qnt / brt ʿl[y]
ḥmbr / brt ʿybn
w zhr / br m{w}{l}Ahmad Al-Jallad - Translation
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Qnt / daughter of [ʿly]
Ḥmbr / daughter of ʿybn
and Zhr / son of {Mwl}Ahmad Al-Jallad - Language and Script
- Dhofari 1a
Interpretation
- Commentary
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This inscription contains the signatures of three individuals, two women and a man. It is characterized by the use of word dividers to separate the given name from the patronymic.
qnt: A common female name meaning 'bondswoman.'
ʿl[y]: The final y is uncertain, but there does appear to be a final letter. The name is restored as ʿly on the basis of its frequency in the Arabian onomastica.
ḥmbr: This female name is previously unattested but appears to be cognate with Arabic ʿambar 'Amber.'
ʿybn: This is either variant of the masculine anthroponym, ʿyb, attested in Safaitic or a fayʿal measure of the name ʿbn, also attested in Safaitic.
w zhr: I have interpreted this as the conjunction w 'and' and the common masculine anthroponym, zhr, cf. Arabic zuhayr, Safaitic zhr. If this reading is correct, then it attests the X-glyph for /z/ of the Duqm-Nafūn Abecedary (Al-Jallad 2025d) in contrast to the H-glyph more commonly attested.
mwl: The reading of this name is highly conjectural. Only the m is assured.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- Silvia Lischi
- Technique
- Painted
- Direction of Script
- Vertical columns
- 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
- [DS] Dhofari inscriptions documented during the Dhofar Survey Project in 2008 (dir. Juris Zarins)
- Site
- Jibjat, Dhofar Governorate, Oman
- Date Found
- 2008
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Women
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