DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 152

Inscription from Gobo Fentseh

Published translation. The reading of YWḎRʿ is explicitly conditional; both personal names have uncertain etymologies.

Date
Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertain
Place
Gobo Fentseh
Language
Early highland inscription
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Early highland inscription

Ancient South ArabianPublished reading; native-script edition unavailable

Transliterated reading

YWḎRʿ bn RYKN / l-ydd ʿstr

The native-script edition has not been retrieved. A transliterated name or word, when present, follows the cited commentary.

02 · Translation

English reading

YWḎRʿ, son of RYKN. May ʿAstar love him.

Habesha History translation of Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. Beta maṣāḥǝft RIÉ 152

    Beta maṣāḥǝft, RIÉ 152: object record and edition references.

  2. RIÉ III.B · no. 152

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 152, p. 137.