Aksumite eraRIÉ 184

RIÉ 184 statuette

This statuette from Zǝban Kutur preserves complete published translation of both sides of the figurine.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Zǝban Kutur
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation of both sides of the figurine

Native-script transcription is not available here.

Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English reading

Left side: A bull-calf of SBT. Right side: This one and also that one.

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

Drewes understands the right-side phrase as referring to the figurine and to a living animal represented by it and offered in sacrifice.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 184

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 184, pp. 192.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 192