DhI 7
Text Information
- Siglum
- DhI 7
- Transliteration
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ʾm s²rtm tmbm
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Translation
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
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The interpretation of this inscription is currently impossible, despite the clear reading. It contains some repeating vocabulary. s²rtm, for example, would correspond to the repeating s²rr in Script 1b inscriptions. Howeer, tmbm, does not seem to derive from any known root. It is tempting to connect ʾm with the common Semitic term for mother, *ʾimm-, but context cannot confirm this.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- 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
- Query (subject uncertain)
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Updated
18 Nov, 2025
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Al-Jallad, Ahmad. 'DhI 7.' OCIANA. 18 Nov, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45885. Accessed: 21 Nov, 2025.