Aksumite eraRIÉ 406

RIÉ 406 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

Samuʾel (?)

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

02 · Translation

Possibly the personal name Samuʾel.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 436; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The first sign would have to be inverted and damaged.

Sources

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

RIÉ 406
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 436
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 67, no. 56.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–436