DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 28

RIÉ 28: incense burner from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a incense burner of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 105.

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

[... ...]𐩲[... ...]𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺|

𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 𐩹[... ...]

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

[... ...]ʿ[... ...]hqny| ʾlmqh ḏ[... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

[…] dedicated [this altar] to Almaqah […].

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 28, p. 60.

The dedicant and the end of the divine epithet are lost.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 28 Doc. 9; T. 5 / DASI 7914
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 28’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.