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Aksumite eraRIÉ 389

RIÉ 389 monogram

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

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

Saʿum

Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.

02 · Translation

English reading

The personal name Saʿum, a passive form from ‘to kiss’.

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

Also attested in RIÉ 437 and 440.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 389

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 425

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 65, no. 42.

Habesha History corpus

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