DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 29

RIÉ 29: altar from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a altar of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 101.

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

[...] 𐩨𐩬 𐩰𐩤𐩣(𐩣) [𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩱𐩡](𐩣)[𐩤𐩠]

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

[...] bn Fqm(m) [hqny ʾl](m)[qh]

02 · Translation

English reading

[...] of the family Fqmm, dedicated to ʾlmqh.

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 29 Doc. 13; T. 4 / DASI 7915
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 29’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.