Aksumite eraRIÉ 293

RIÉ 293 small bronze object

This small bronze object from Hawelti preserves surviving short text or mark.

01 · Original text

Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script

Ancient South ArabianSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

hyw / hywt (four times)

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

02 · Translation

‘Life’, repeated four times; probably an amulet.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 376; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The alternative is that the form is anepigraphic; the final t is uncertain.

Sources

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

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–376