DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 172

Inscription from Addi Qayyih area

Preserved personal name and tentative verbal gloss. The name is related to the Ethiopian Semitic root meaning ‘help’; the exact verbal force is not certain.

Date: Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertain
Place: Addi Qayyih area
Language: Early highland inscription
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Early highland inscription

Ancient South ArabianPublished reading; native-script edition unavailable

Transliterated reading

HGZT

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

02 · Translation

English reading

HGZT (personal name; perhaps ‘she [a deity] helped’ or ‘helped him’).

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

Sources

Editions & references

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Beta maṣāḥǝft RIÉ 172
Beta maṣāḥǝft, RIÉ 172: object record and edition references.
RIÉ III.B · no. 172
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 172, p. 146.