Aksumite eraRIÉ 397

RIÉ 397 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

Misaʾel

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

02 · Translation

The personal name Misaʾel.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 431; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Samuʾel is possible, but Drewes considers Misaʾel more likely from the letter arrangement.

Sources

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

RIÉ 397
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 431
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 66, no. 50.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–431