Aksumite eraRIÉ 351

RIÉ 351 pottery graffito

This inscribed pottery or graffito on pottery from Matara preserves partial, tentative readings on two lines. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPartial, tentative readings on two lines

Transliterated reading

[…] bḍʿ l-[…] / […] ḥgs

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

02 · Translation

English reading

[…] dedicated <this jar> to […] (?) / […] Ḥagos (‘joy’; probably a personal name).

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

The dedication proposed for line 1 is explicitly doubtful; line 2 contains ḥgs, probably the personal name Ḥagos.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 351
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 351, p. 407.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–407