Aksumite eraRIÉ 315

RIÉ 315 pottery graffito

This inscribed pottery or graffito on pottery from Matara preserves possible word on the right-hand fragment. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Matara
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPossible word on the right-hand fragment

Transliterated reading

ʾana (?)

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

02 · Translation

English reading

I (?)

Habesha History translation of Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

The first-person pronoun is only a possible reading; the left-hand fragment remains uninterpreted.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 315

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 315, p. 392.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–391