DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 39

RIÉ 39: incense burner from Yeha

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a incense burner of stone from Yeha, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 13.

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

(𐩡𐩢𐩺) 𐩴𐩧𐩨𐩺𐩬

𐩨𐩬 𐩺𐩤(𐩵)[𐩣𐩱𐩡 𐩰]—

[𐩤](𐩣𐩣) 𐩹-𐩣𐩧𐩺𐩨

𐩯𐩡(𐩱) 𐩲𐩻𐩩(𐩧) [𐩥]-(𐩱)—

𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 𐩣𐩠𐩧𐩩 (𐩺)—

[𐩵]-𐩠𐩥 𐩥-𐩨𐩬-𐩠𐩥 𐩭—

(𐩺)𐩧𐩠𐩣 [... ...]

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

(Lḥy) grbyn bn Yq(d)[mʾl F]— [q](mm) ḏ-Mryb s³l(ʾ) ʿṯt(r) [w]-(ʾ)— lmqh mhrt (y)— [d]-hw w-bn-hw Ḫ— (y)rhm [... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

Lḫy, the stonemason, son of Yqdmʾl Fqmm, he of Mryb dedicated to ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh the wealth of his hands and his son Ḫyrhm [... ...]

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 39 DEE, II, 29 / DASI 7918
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 39’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.