Aksumite eraRIÉ 182

RIÉ 182 stone inscription

This plaque from Maṭarā preserves complete surviving texts i and ii, three physical lines each. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Maṭarā
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete surviving Texts I and II, three physical lines each

Transliterated reading

Text I 1 mdbt | l-tbʿ-m | gb-m | khl-m | 2 [.]t-m | ʾqh-m | tdl-m | tfn-m | ʾkbr-m 3 wdl-m | syq-m | tkz-m Text II 1 [.]nyt | m-wsk-n | ʾhrt | m 2 [.]fś | m | ʾhrt | dʿbr | m 3 ʿmdt | m | gdr-s | m | t | tz | m

Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition. The transliteration follows the Beta maṣāḥǝft edition line breaks. Drewes treats most items as probable personal names in lists; mdbt, ʾbrt, and the lists’ purpose remain uncertain.

02 · Translation

English reading

Text I 1 The mdbt of TBʿ, and also of GB, KHL, 2 [.]T, ʾQH, TDL, TFN, ʾKBR, 3 WDL, SYQ, and TKZ. Text II 1 [.]NYT, in addition (or: ‘in total’?) 100 ʾbrt, 2 [.]FŚ 100 ʾbrt, DʿBR 100, 3 ʿMDT 100, GDR 100, TTZ 100.

Independent English rendering of Drewes’s published French translation or lexical commentary; checked against the cited printed page(s).

The transliteration follows the Beta maṣāḥǝft edition line breaks. Drewes treats most items as probable personal names in lists; mdbt, ʾbrt, and the lists’ purpose remain uncertain.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 182

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 182, pp. 172.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 172