#New on #OCIANA: A #Dhofari itinerarium (prayer for travel): "help him who has departed; give long life (to him who) is fed up with staying in one place". How many can still relate to this...
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#New on #OCIANA - The #Dhofari Script 2 inscriptions documented by Dr. Al-Mashikhi, many thanks for his hard work. DhI 8 is simply remarkable. The Mušrikīn of the Quran state: 'nothing dooms us but Fate (ad-dahr)'. DhI 8 states: 'Dahr, lord of plunder and fear, burned fiercely'.
#OCIANA Update! GIS info is now available for the #Dhofari inscriptions! More of these texts will be inserted soon so keep you eye on the 'last updated' page.
#New on #OCIANA: A #Dhofari script 2 inscription from the Yemeni al-Mahrah region, documented by a local and sent to OCIANA for preservation.
It records hopelessness as the goats (ʾrn, cf. Mehri rawn), the flock of the writer, were afflicted with illness
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#New on #OCIANA - a remarkable #Dhofari 1a text containing 3 generations of a family devoted to the deity 𝐑𝐚̄𝐦 'high, exalted'. The verb of devotion is 𝒌𝒘𝒓 (cf. Mehri kīwer) 'to love'.
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#New on #OCIANA - Perhaps one of the commonest themes in graffiti world wide are records of sexual intercourse. Ancient graffiti are no exception! This Script 2 #Dhofari txt reads:
{r}{ḥ}km w nk hls¹m
'Rḥkm and he had sex with Hls¹m'
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#New on #OCIANA, the 1st #Dhofari Script 2 txt is now online. It is a simple 3 generation genealogy, 𝒅̣𝒍ʿ𝒕 (𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇) ʿ𝒎𝒓 (𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇) 𝒍𝒃𝒏𝒎. These texts are written horizontally rather than vertically and have a lovely butterfly 𝒎.
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While #Dhofari Script 1a is well understood and its corpus is growing, the much less frequently attested Script 2 remained illusive. Here are some notes on that variant for discussion: academia.edu/144277088/Al...
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The first epigraphic attestation of the Modern South Arabian lexical isogloss ġayg 'man' in a #Dhofari text
'Bar-Shahm son of Mb---- has love for a man'
Amorous expressions are common in the inscriptions, as is concealing the identity of the lover with generic nouns!
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Lots of new grammar in the #Dhofari inscriptions, suggesting further links with the Modern South Arabian languages. The verb yġfrm 'may they pardon' shows the plural ending -m. See these two new texts just uploaded to #OCIANA
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Remarkable! #Dhofari inscription KMC 28 just deciphered and uploaded records the dedication of rock art to a deity called mʿl mḥmd, exalted mḥmd. The epithet mʿl was previously applied to divine sun. It seems mḥmd 'praised one' also has the same referent!
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#New on #OCIANA: a #Dhofari inscription from east Oman discovered by Prof. al-Jahwari. The text seems to give the name and lineage of an individual. If this is correct, then Dhofari 𝒉𝒍 would correspond to Arabic ʾahl 'family'.
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#New in #OCIANA: A remarkable prayer in #Dhofari in praise ℎ̣𝑚𝑑 of a deity called ʾ𝑦𝑙. Is ʾ𝑦𝑙 a local pronunciation of the pan-Semitic father deity, ʾilu? The deity seems to be later in the inscription called ℎ̣𝑦 'living'!
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#New on #OCIANA: 3 #Dhofari texts, attesting much in the way of grammar: a preposition k-, a suffixed article, and a new verb, s³ʿl, the meaning of which is unclear.
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Read about the decipherment of the #Dhofari script in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...
The Dhofari inscriptions are slowly being translated and inserted into #OCIANA. See this fascinating inscr. that invokes the exalted Sun, Shams, to heal a woman: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
The Dhofari script: "An entirely new page in the history of Arabia" [via Science.org] 🧪🧑🔬👳♂️📜🔤
"one particular writing from a cave in Dhofar only had [~] 26 individual symbols, or glyphs, that never repeated."
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