ComparisonsRIÉ 403

RIÉ 403 monogram

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

Date
commentary includes a pre-Aksumite comparison or possible assignment
Place
ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

yrhb- (?)

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

02 · Translation

English reading

A personal name perhaps meaning ‘he will enlarge [it]’ or ‘may he enlarge [it]’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 434; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Reading from bottom to top is possible; earlier Bahriy/Baḥraya Krəstos interpretations are unconvincing.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 403

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 434

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 67, no. 53d.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–434