Aksumite eraRIÉ 301

RIÉ 301 small bronze object

This small bronze object from Yeha 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 (twice)

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

02 · Translation

‘Life’, repeated twice; probably an amulet.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 380; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Jamme read hws, but Drewes argues that the symmetry supports hyw.

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. 2019–380