Aksumite eraRIÉ 205

RIÉ 205 stone inscription

This plaque from ʾAksum preserves complete published translation of two lines.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation of two lines

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 I, Yohudā, 2 made <this>.

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

The final letter of the personal name is not wholly certain. The object ‘this’ is understood but not written in the inscription.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 205

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 205, pp. 305.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 53, no. 22.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 305