DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 33 A

RIÉ 33 A: altar from Yeha

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a altar of stone from Yeha, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 2398.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩣𐩣𐩪 𐩥-𐩠𐩩[.]↯𐩬 <𐩠>𐩤𐩬𐩺𐩥→ 𐩺𐩰𐩲𐩣 𐩨-𐩢𐩥 𐩬↯𐩰𐩪-𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩥-𐩬𐩰[𐩪 𐩱]𐩡𐩱𐩪 𐩥-

𐩱𐩡𐩲𐩴𐩸 𐩥-𐩱𐩡𐩲𐩤𐩨 𐩥-𐩤↯𐩬<𐩺>-𐩠𐩣𐩥 |

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

Mms¹ w-Ht[.]↯n <h>qnyw→ Yfʿm b-Ḥw n↯fs¹-hmw w-nf[s¹ ʾ]lʾs¹ w- ʾlʿgz w-ʾlʿqb w-q↯n<y>-hmw |

02 · Translation

English reading

Mms¹ and Ht[.] dedicated to Yfʿm in Ḥw, their life and the life of ʾlʾs¹, ʾlʿgḏ and ʾlʿqb and their properties.

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 33 A RES 3428 A; CIH 459 A; DAE 27 A / DASI 6466
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 33 A’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.