Aksumite eraRIÉ 199

RIÉ 199 bassin

This bassin from ʾAksum preserves complete published translation.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation

Native-script transcription is not available here.

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

02 · Translation

English reading

This is the basin that ʾHLL had made for mstʿzl.

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

Drewes identifies ʾHLL as a personal name. mstʿzl may be a personal name or denote a participant in an unknown rite; its meaning is unresolved.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 199

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 199, pp. 293.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 51, no. 18.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 293