Aksumite eraRIÉ 401

RIÉ 401 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

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

02 · Translation

The personal name Yaʿqob.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 433; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The letter arrangement is unusual; Drewes rejects Littmann's Yashaq.

Sources

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

RIÉ 401
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 433
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 67, no. 53b.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–433