KMG 48
Text Information
- Siglum
- KMG 48
- Transliteration
-
mnm
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Translation
-
Shelter
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 1a
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
mnm: If not a personal name, then this word likely refers to the rock shelter it was painted. Compare with Arabic manām- 'sleeping place'.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- 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 column
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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 [Unpublished but available on http://www.ancientarabia.co.uk/ under "Projects"/"Dhofar epigraphic project".] 1993.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 G - East of Tawi Atir, Dhofar Governorate, Oman
- Date Found
- 1991-1992
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Camping
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Updated
16 Nov, 2025
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Al-Jallad, Ahmad. 'KMG 48.' OCIANA. 16 Nov, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45877. Accessed: 30 Jan, 2026.