Aksumite eraRIÉ 208

RIÉ 208 building-stone marks

This bloc from ʾAksum preserves single mason’s mark.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSingle mason’s mark

Transliterated reading

s-shaped mark

Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English reading

No English translation is available for this entry.

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

Drewes identifies the sign as probably a mason’s mark shaped like the letter s, not as a translatable word.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 208

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 208, pp. 306.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 306