Aksumite eraRIÉ 254

RIÉ 254 unspecified

This unspecified from ʿAddi Alawti preserves tentative published translation. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicTentative published translation

Native-script transcription is not available here.

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

02 · Translation

I, ʾ-r-k-y, killed an ʿarəkt (?) at G-yəs (?).

Habesha History translation of Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

The meaning of ʿarəkt is unresolved. Neither the older “snake” interpretation nor the classical word “female friend” is silently imposed.

Sources

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RIÉ 254
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 254, pp. 351–353.
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 69, no. 63.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 351