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Aksumite eraRIÉ 217

RIÉ 217 building-stone marks

This bloc from ʾAmbā ʾAddi Māqdās preserves complete published translation.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
ʾAmbā ʾAddi Māqdās
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation

Native-script transcription is not available here.

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

02 · Translation

English reading

And this is the stone of WZB.

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

WZB is a personal name also attested for an Aksumite king in coin legends; identity with that king is not established by this text.

Sources

Editions & references

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  1. RIÉ 217

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 217, pp. 311–312.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 311–312