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A phenomenal #Dhofari inscription recording the dedication of rock art to a deity referred to by the epithet: mʿl mḥmd معل محمد “the exalted praised one”. Read more in the commentary here: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

#BES20 on #OCIANA - a new epithet of Allāt is attested. This poor individual calls out in despair 𝒔̣𝒚𝒉̣ صيّح 'O Allāt, goddess of protection'! 𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕 𝒉̣𝒂𝒎𝒚! Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

#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 seem to correspond with Arabic ʾahl 'family'. Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

#New on #OCIANA: a remarkable Dhofari text by a sick man on the move who makes an offering in hopes of respite. The translation is provisional as we learn more and more about this new language … See: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

#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 text called ℎ̣𝑦 'living'! See the commentary here: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

#New on #OCIANA: 3 #Dhofari texts, attesting much in the way of grammar: a preposition k-, a suffixed article, and a new verb the meaning of which is unclear. Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4… ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4… ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

The first #Dhofari inscriptions are now being inserted into #OCIANA. Here is a fantastic inscr. invoking the exalted sun (Shams) to heal a woman. To read about the decipherment of the script, see: science.org/content/articl… Find more about the text: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

#New on #OCIANA - BES20 now has more than 1300 entries, with 100s more pending upload soon. Here is a fun one: BES20 1270 is dated to the year of 𝒔̣𝒇𝒓𝒕, perhaps 'withered plants' signaling a drought...the prayer calls upon the storm god for respite! ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

#Updated on #OCIANA. OCIANA 1 had a collection of 138 mysterious, unpublished Dadanitic inscriptions with no information on who collected them or where exactly they were from. These have been updated - visit the siglum 𝘼𝙡-ʿ𝙐𝙙̱𝙖𝙮𝙗. Sample: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/1…

#Updates to OCIANA - over the next week, we will upload more than 1000 new Safaitic inscriptions from the BES20 season, edited by J. Bloomfield. Here is a sample: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2…. Search siglum 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝟐𝟎

More than 4,000 new texts were collected during this survey season and will be added to the queue for insertion in #OCIANA. If you want to follow the latest on the surveys and excavations of the team, find us here: facebook.com/share/p/1AqhTA….

#Ancient_Dhofari grammar notes. The inscriptions are starting to clarify the grammatical profile of the language of the Dhofari texts. One inscription attests the prayer 𝒉𝒈̇𝒕̱-𝒉 'help him!' /haġiṯ-hu/. We see a h-causative and h-suffix pronouns. Old Mehri? See edition below.

More surprises form the Dhofari script (see here for decipherment: shorturl.at/S9iHa). Kawṯar is a hapax in the Quran and its meaning is elusive. The name is now attested in Dhofari, as a male given name. 𝒍 {𝒔}𝒘ʿ𝒃 𝒃𝒓 𝒌𝒘𝒕̱𝒓 'By Swʿb son of 𝑲𝒂𝒘𝒕̱𝒂𝒓' nice.

#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

One of the most elusive names in pre-Islamic Arabia is muḥammad/maḥmid. It is attested only a couple of times in ANA. The decipherment of the Dhofari script (V1: academia.edu/129778573/Al_J…) revealed an unexpected mḥmd in pre-Islamic Oman (#94 Al-Shaḥrī and King's report below).

The pre-Islamic script from Dhofar is undeciphered and therefore there are no inscriptions of this type in #OCIANA. Now we have the decipherment of the main variant of the Dhofari alphabet: academia.edu/129778573/Al_J…. There is much more work to be done now that reading is possible.

This paper provides an overview of Ancient North Arabian writing traditions, and attempts to understand their development through the evolution of formulae. Many nice #ociana inscriptions in here. Find more: academia.edu/129747926/Al_J…

Is #Ancient_North_Arabian confusing? Having a hard time understanding what is what in #OCIANA? See this document, with definitions of each epigraphic category, history, bibliography, and some example texts. Lots of questions, and lots more to be done. academia.edu/129719170/Al_J…