Aksumite eraRIÉ 185bis I
The second trilingual victory inscription of ʿEzana
4th century CEAksum, Ethiopia
This duplicate of ʿEzana’s Beja victory text preserves the royal titulary and the account of captives, livestock, provisioning, and resettlement more clearly than the earlier-known monument.
Geʿez (pseudo-Sabaic orthography)
Excerpt · lines 1–3, after the damaged name𐩣𐩡𐩫 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩥𐩣 𐩥𐩢𐩣𐩧𐩣 𐩥𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬𐩣 𐩥𐩪𐩡𐩠𐩬𐩣 𐩥𐩪𐩨𐩱𐩣 𐩥𐩢𐩨𐩦𐩩𐩣 𐩥𐩮𐩺𐩣𐩣 𐩥𐩮𐩧𐩵𐩣 𐩥𐩫𐩪𐩥𐩣 𐩥𐩨𐩴𐩣
Normalized transcription from the cited reading; original letterforms appear in the image.
Transliteration
mlk ʾkswm wḥmrm wrydnm wslhnm wsbʾm wḥbštm wṣymm wṣrdm wkswm wbgm
English translation
King of Aksum, Himyar, Raydān, Salḥēn, Sabaʾ, Ḥabašat, Ṣeyāmō, Ṣrd, Kāsū, and Bega…
English rendering after Beta Maṣāḥǝft, RIÉ 185bis I (CC BY-SA 4.0), and Uhlig (2001), pp. 15–16.
Sources & references
- RIÉ 185bis and 270bis
RIÉ 185bis and 270bis — Beta maṣāḥǝft / Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik; CC BY-SA 4.0
- Further reference
Siegbert Uhlig, ‘Eine trilinguale ʿEzana-Inschrift’, Aethiopica 4 (2001), pp. 7–31
Habesha History corpus
Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B, p. 199–206