Aksumite eraRIÉ 197

RIÉ 197 rocher

This rocher from ʾAksum preserves complete published translation of three lines.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation of three lines

Native-script transcription is not available here.

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

02 · Translation

English reading

1 Territory 2 of SMSMY 3 and of SBT.

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

A second identical rock inscription nearby suggests a boundary marking. Drewes takes SMSMY and SBT as personal names, while earlier scholarship also considered ethnonyms or place names.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 197

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 197, pp. 290.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 290