Aksumite eraRIÉ 318

Pottery fragment from Matara

Possible fragment of a personal name. The editor suggests a compound name beginning with “god”; the examples cited in the commentary are parallels, not the surviving inscription.

Date: Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place: Matara
Language: Geʿez / early Ethiopian epigraphy
Script: Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez / early Ethiopian epigraphy

EthiopicPossible fragment of a personal name

Transliterated reading

ʾl[…] (?)

Tentative reading from the published commentary; brackets and question marks preserve uncertainty.

02 · Translation

English reading

ʾL[…] (personal name beginning with “god”?)

Habesha History gloss after Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

A tentative name or word gloss, not a continuous translation.

Sources

Editions & references

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RIÉ III.B commentary
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 318, p. 392.