Aksumite eraRIÉ 215

RIÉ 215 basin

This basin from Abba Mäṭaʿ preserves complete short text with alternative grammatical analyses. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete short text with alternative grammatical analyses

Transliterated reading

z-lwd

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

02 · Translation

English reading

Either ‘<stone> of LWD’ or ‘this belongs to WD.’

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

It is unclear whether l belongs to the personal name LWD or is the preposition introducing WD.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 215

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 215, pp. 311.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 311