Aksumite eraRIÉ 211

RIÉ 211 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

ʿ-shaped mark

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).

The sign is probably a mason’s mark in the shape of the letter ʿayn, not a translatable word.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 211

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 211, pp. 307.

  2. DAE illustration

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

Habesha History corpus

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