DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 16

RIÉ 16: stela from Hawlti

DASI catalogues this inscription on a stela of stone from Hawlti, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1625.

Date: Pre-Aksumite; absolute date not supplied by DASI
Place: Hawlti, Aksum, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...](𐩲)𐩧𐩫(𐩺)[𐩩𐩬 ... ...]

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

[... ...](ʿ)rk(y)[tn ... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

No English translation is available for this entry.

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 16, p. 53.

Only the damaged relational adjective ʿrkytn survives; RIÉ III/B says a woman's name probably preceded it.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 16 DEE, II, 23 / DASI 7585
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 16’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.