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DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 11

Wʿrn’s Kaskase column

Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCEKaskase, Eritrea

A terse two-line column inscription names Wʿrn Ḥywt and his descent from S¹lmm, without naming DʿMT.

The two-line Kaskase pillar inscription RIÉ 11, reproduced as DAE IV inscription 35
Enno Littmann, Sabaische, griechische und altabessinische Inschriften, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1913), p. 62 (PDF p. 72), ‘Inschrift 35. Originalphotographie.’ Photograph: Theodor von Lüpke. Resized and converted to WebP.1913 publication; public domain in the United States.Enlarge image ↗

Early Sabaic

Surviving text

𐩥𐩲𐩧𐩬 𐩢𐩺𐩥𐩩 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬 𐩨𐩬 𐩨𐩬 𐩪𐩡𐩣𐩣

Normalized script from the cited reading; brackets mark restored or missing text.

Transliteration

Wʿrn Ḥywt mlkn bn bn S¹lmm

English translation

Wʿrn Ḥywt, the king, descendant of S¹lmm.

English rendering after A. J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III/B (2019), p. 47.

Compare translation

Wʿrn Ḥywt, the king, descendant of S¹lmm.

DASI CSAI English translation; data CC BY 4.0

Sources & references

  1. RIÉ 11 / DAE 35 / RES 3547 / DASI 7764

    Giulia Buono, ‘RIÉ 11 DAE 35; RES 3547’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05

Habesha History corpus

David W. Phillipson (2012), p. 38

A. J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III/B (2019), p. 47.