Aksumite eraRIÉ 388

RIÉ 388 monogram

This monogram from ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region preserves surviving short text or mark.

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

Yaʿqob ʾana

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

02 · Translation

I am Yaʿqob.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 425; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

A separate graffito gives the independent compound name Za-Yoḥannəs Gabr, ‘Servant of John’; it is not an apposition to Yaʿqob.

Sources

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

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–425