#New on #OCIANA: Is this the oldest #Arabic inscription yet discovered? The famous #Bāyir inscription is now online. An ancient Arab calls upon the Canaanite gods: Malkom, Kemosh, and Qaws to protect the wells of Bāyir (ancient: ʾabāʾir).
Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
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#New on #OCIANA: The ancient Arabian divine world was populated by independent powers. The author of this #Safaitic inscription calls upon an assembly of 7 gods to save "from what Bʿls¹mn (the storm god) has unjustly wrought upon us" = 'drought'
Find more: shorturl.at/UyXCr
#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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#OCIANA #Top_10_in_2025 : The #OCIANA team inserted more than 1500 new inscriptions into the database. Here are our top ten (with a three-way tie at #10) of the year, just in case you missed them! From Nabonidus to Dahr, let us known what you think!
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#Behind_the_scenes: The first inscriptions from the #Mecca region are going into #OCIANA. They are not public now, but you can get an idea of the distribution here! Can you see what I see? More coming very soon. (yellow are inscriptions not available to the public yet). Photo - wadi nu'man (#7)
#Updated on #OCIANA - The first Ancient South Arabian inscription from the Ḥarrah, from Zalaf, Syria! Was it carved by a North Arabian who learned the script or a wandering South Arabian trader? Impossible to know! But its irregularities tell a story.
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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.
#Incredible ! There is good evidence that Greek literacy was relatively widespread among the ancient Arabs east of Ḥawrān. Here, our #Safaitic author partially writes out the Safaitic letters in the Greek order, omitting vowels!
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#Testing a new #OCIANA functionality - let's map the attestations of the deity 𝒍𝒉 (Allāh, left) and the deity 𝒓𝒅̣𝒘 (Ruḍaw, right). We begin to see a geographic distribution come into focus...
#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 - from the cosmopolitan world of ancient Arabia: ʾAkzam son of Ġawṯ, of the people of Rm (Rome?), records being driven away from the road (𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑖̄𝑙!) by the tribe of Thamūd, mentioned in the Quran! From near ʿarʿar عرعر KSA. Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
#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'.
Find more:
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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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#NEW on #OCIANA - Drought is a major theme in the #Safaitic inscriptions. This text records a drought in the spring, during 𝒅̱𝒏𝒃 𝒅̱𝒌𝒓 (ذنب ذكر) 'the tail of Aries'! And calls upon the god Yayṯeʿ to deliver from the dry land.
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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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#New on #OCIANA, perhaps the first rhymed Dhofari text: an expression of weeping out of lovesickness, themes in Safaitic and in Jāhilī poetry.
'here, he has wept; in him is much weeping; because of his excess love (صبه), he is silent'
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New on #OCIANA! A remarkable text carved 'when the reign of Dahr caused difficulty', i.e., when deified death ravaged the land. This is our first attestation of Dahr as a divine title in the pre-Islamic epigraphic record! Likely an epithet of Mot 'Death', Manay 'Fate'
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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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An challenging #Dofari inscription, with a preliminary analysis on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
A man falls ill, after travelling by night, and comes to the present place to make an offering...I think :). Comments are very welcome at this early stage of understanding this new language.
#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'!
See the commentary: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...
#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...
#Phenomenal #Hismaic inscription just edited for #OCIANA by J. Norris. The text is by a man with a Greek name of the lost tribe of ʿ𝒂̄𝒅. He calls on the goddess Allāt to be mindful of his friends 𝒚𝒉𝒅 “Judah” (Yəhûdâ) and 𝒚𝒔ʿ “Jesus” (Yēšûaʿ).
See: shorturl.at/jKaua
