Aksumite eraRIÉ 198

RIÉ 198 bassin

This bassin from ʾAksum preserves complete published translation of three inscription units.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation of three inscription units

Native-script transcription is not available here.

The original letter forms are visible in the published facsimile. The transliterated reading, where present, follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English reading

Text I 1 We (?) placed this basin under the protection 2 of ʿAstar 3 and Mədr. Text II (D) DMʿM and NGŚ (A) […] Text III 1 This is HKF, 2 who wrote <the inscription on> this basin.

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

The first-person plural in Text I is explicitly tentative. Text II probably preserves personal names; its last damaged item is not translated.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 198

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 198, pp. 291.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 50, no. 17.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 291