KMJ 23-25
Text Information
- Siglum
- KMJ 23-25
- Transliteration
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by yhmm nhd
Giuliano Castagna
- Translation
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By is mindful of Nhd
Giuliano Castagna
- Language and Script
- Dhofari/Dhofari 1a
Interpretation
- Commentary
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by: A personal name attested 8 times in Safaitic.
yhmm: Third singular masculine person of a rather commonly occurring verbal form in Dhofari inscriptions. According to Al-Jallad it means 'to worry about' or 'to be mindful of' (2025d). Cf. also Jibbali/Shehret H1-stem verb اهمم 'to be concerned, to encourage someone to do something' (MLZ 964). It is unclear why the object is sometimes introduced by l- and other times unmarked.
nhd: An uncommon personal name, cf. Arabic nihād. It is attested twice in Safaitic and once in Hadramitic with mimation as nhdm. Al-Shahri & King's tracing points to nrhd. However, the original photograph shows rather clearly that what the above authors interpreted as a dot is, in actuality, a stray mark resulting from the /h/ in yhmm.
Giuliano Castagna
- Editio Princeps
- Al-Shaḥrī and King 1993
- Field Collector
- G.M.H. King and A.A.M. Al-Shaḥrī
- Technique
- Carved
- 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
- 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 [Unpublished but available on http://www.ancientarabia.co.uk/ under "Projects"/"Dhofar epigraphic project".] 1993.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 J - The Negd in the eastern region to the east of the Thamrayt road, Dhofar Governorate, Oman
- Date Found
- 1991-1992
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Query (subject uncertain)
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