DhI 3
Text Information
- Siglum
- DhI 3
- Transliteration
-
zkrym lbb nhy gnm
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Translation
-
Zkrym loves Nhy (son of) Gnm
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 2
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
zkrym: The name ḏkrm and ḏkr are common in Ancient South and North Arabian, respectively. The exact form here is unattested but my reflect a hypocoristic name terminating in -y, followed by mimation. A more adventurous interpretation would take the name as a theophoric compound with yam as the divine element.
nhy gnm: The interpretation of this sequence is uncertain. Nhy is a popular god in North Arabia and therefore we may have before us an expression of devotion towards this deity. The term gnm may then be the name of a place, specifying the location of the deity's shrine, for example. However, in almost all interpretable cases, lbb is followed by a person name. So it is easier to interpret nhy gnm as a geneology omitting the word 'son', which is previously attested in Dhofari and is common in Himaitic.
- Editio Princeps
- Twitter: @ahmed6412
- Field Collector
- Ahmed AlMashikhi
- Technique
- Painted
- Direction of Script
- Right to left
- 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-Jallad, A. Preliminary Notes on Script 2 of the Dhofari Epigraphic Complex: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17276961.
- Site
- Jabal al-Qamar, Rayḫūt province , Dhofar Governorate, Oman
- Date Found
- 2023
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- greetings or love (wdd)
- Download Image