Aksumite eraRIÉ 209

RIÉ 209 mur

This mur from ʾAksum preserves possible inscription fragment or mason’s mark. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPossible inscription fragment or mason’s mark

Transliterated reading

w / ḥ / r (?)

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

It is impossible to determine whether this is a fragment of an inscription or a mason’s mark; Littmann’s tentative sequence remains only possible.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 209

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 209, pp. 306–307.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 54, no. 25 A.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 306–307