DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 19

RIÉ 19: altar from Enda Tcherqos

DASI catalogues this inscription on a altar of stone from Enda Tcherqos, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1363.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Enda Tcherqos, Aksum, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩥𐩲[𐩧𐩬 ... ...]

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

Wʿ[rn ... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

Wʿrn […].

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 19, p. 54.

The preserved personal name may refer to Wʿrn Ḥywt or Wʿrn Rydn; the identification is unresolved.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 19 DEE, II, 28 / DASI 7812
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 19’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.