DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 33 B

RIÉ 33 B: 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

[... ...] 𐩥-𐩲↯𐩪𐩩𐩧 𐩥-𐩬𐩧𐩥

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

[... ...] w-ʿ↯s¹tr w-Nrw

02 · Translation

English reading

[…] and ʿAthtar and Nrw.

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 33, p. 64.

This is Text II on the same altar/support as RIÉ 33 A.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 33 B RES 3428 B; CIH 459 B; DAE 27 B / DASI 6467
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 33 B’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.