Aksumite eraRIÉ 203

RIÉ 203 stone inscription

This pierre from ʾAksum preserves complete tentative ownership or maker’s formula. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete tentative ownership or maker’s formula

Transliterated reading

z-Walbanā / z-Walobanā (?)

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

02 · Translation

English reading

Of Walbanā (or Walobanā).

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

The single word probably consists of the genitive marker z- plus an uncertain personal name, indicating that the stone was made by or belonged to that person.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 203

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 203, pp. 303.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 52, no. 20.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 303