Aksumite eraRIÉ 288

RIÉ 288 seal

This seal from Aksum preserves surviving short text or mark.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Aksum
Language
Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script

Ancient South ArabianSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

ḤFDM / WQHʾL

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

02 · Translation

English reading

Two personal names: Ḥafadam, [of the family] Waqahʾil.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 369; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The etymology of ḤFDM is uncertain; the second name is South Arabian. Drewes follows Jamme's preference for q in WQHʾL.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 288

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 369

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–369