Aksumite eraRIÉ 222

RIÉ 222 building-stone marks

This bloc from Dǝḵana preserves complete published translation of two lines.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation of two lines

Native-script transcription is not available here.

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

02 · Translation

English reading

1 I made <this>, 2 I, Za-Krəstos.

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

The object ‘this’ is understood but not written. Drewes explains Za-Krəstos as an abbreviated Christian personal name meaning ‘[Servant] of Christ’.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 222

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 222, pp. 317.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 317