DhI 6
Text Information
- Siglum
- DhI 6
- Transliteration
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b- by{n}{l}t l- nmtʿ ġrwm
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Translation
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Through {Bynlt} may Ġrwm be satisfied
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
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The interpretation of this inscription is highly conjectural. The reading of the fourth and fifth glyphs is unclear. Glyph four resembles a late Sabaic r but the glyph appears as expected later in the inscription. The following glyph, a putative l, is rather rounded, which is atypical of Script 2. If this reading is correct, could then the divine name betoken a manifestation of Allāt, byn-lt?
nmtʿ: There are a number of verbal forms that begin with n in Dhofari which resist a conclusive interpretation. If this is a verb, then it would derive from the root mtʿ 'to give pleasure'. It is, therefore, possible to understand it as an n-stem, preceded by the asseverative l-.
ġrwm: An anthroponym, the subject of the preceding verb. It would be related to Mehri ġārəw 'a one-day-old camel' (Johnstone 1987: 142).
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
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- 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.
- Johnstone, T.M. Mehri Lexicon and English-Mehri Word-List. With a list of the English definitions in the /Jibbāali Lexicon/ compiled by G.R. Smith. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1987.
- Site
- Jabal al-Qamar, Rayḫūt province , Dhofar Governorate, Oman
- Date Found
- 2023
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Religion
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