DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 12

Kaskase column fragment naming Rdʾm

A single damaged line preserves the royal name Rdʾm and title ‘king’, but no DʿMT title survives.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Kaskase/Keskese, Senafe area, Eritrea; in-situ architectural column
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩧𐩵𐩱𐩣 𐩣𐩡[𐩫𐩬 ... ...]

Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.

Scholarly transliteration

Rdʾm ml[kn ... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

Rdʾm, the king […].

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 12, p. 47.

The remainder of the surface is too eroded to translate.

Sources

Editions & references

Follow the record back to the edition, catalogue, or image source used here.

RIÉ 12 / DEE VI 54 / DASI 7760
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 12’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.

Habesha History corpus

David W. Phillipson (2012), p. 38