DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 13

RIÉ 13: altar from Unknown (Ethiopia)

DASI catalogues this royal dedicatory text - fragmentary on a altar of stone from Unknown (Ethiopia), Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 671.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Unknown (Ethiopia), Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ... 𐩡𐩣]𐩬 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬

𐩨𐩬 𐩧𐩨𐩢 [... ...]

[... ... 𐩠]𐩤𐩬𐩺𐩥

𐩡-𐩲𐩪𐩩𐩧 [... ...]

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

[... ... Lm]n mlkn bn Rbḥ [... ...] [... ... h]qnyw l-ʿs¹tr [... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

[... ...] Lmn, the king, son of Rbḥ [... ...] [... ...] dedicated to ʿs¹tr [... ...]

CSAI/DASI English translation; DASI record data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 13 / DASI 7809
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 13’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.