DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 24

RIÉ 24: stone piece from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) on a stone piece of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 113.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Gobochela, Aksum, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩮𐩨𐩢𐩠[𐩣𐩥 𐩥-𐩡𐩢𐩺 𐩨]—

[𐩬𐩺 𐩺𐩤𐩵𐩣]𐩱𐩡 𐩨𐩬 𐩰[... ...]

Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.

Scholarly transliteration

Ṣbḥh[mw w-Lḥy b]— [ny Yqdm]ʾl bn F[... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

Ṣbḥhmw and Lḥy, the two sons of Yqdmʾl of the family F[... ...]

CSAI/DASI English translation; DASI record data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 24 Doc. 3; T. 9 / DASI 7888
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 24’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.