Aksumite eraRIÉ 256

RIÉ 256 unspecified

This unspecified from ʿAddi Alawti preserves published translation.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
ʿAddi Alawti
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPublished 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

English reading

I am Za-Yoḥannəs.

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

The edition discusses the name as an abbreviated form; that expansion is not added to the inscribed text.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 256

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 256, pp. 353–354.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 72, no. 85.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 353