Aksumite eraRIÉ 204

RIÉ 204 stone inscription

This pierre from ʾAksum preserves partial published translation of a broken two-line text. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPartial published translation of a broken two-line text

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

1 To the stonecutters, [it] pleases (?) 2 that which […].

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

The restoration at the end of line 2 is uncertain, and the surviving syntax is incomplete.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 204

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 204, pp. 304.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 52, no. 21.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 304