Aksumite eraRIÉ 214

RIÉ 214 stone inscription

This pierre from Abba Liqanos preserves tentative interpretation of a two-line fragment. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Abba Liqanos
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicTentative interpretation of a two-line fragment

Transliterated reading

ʾana [name lost] / gb[rku] (?)

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

02 · Translation

English reading

I, [name lost], made <this> (?).

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

The reading depends on restoring the final word as gabarku, ‘I made’; the personal name is illegible.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 214

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 214, pp. 310.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 53, no. 23.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 310