Aksumite eraRIÉ 411

RIÉ 411 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

Safari ʾiyu

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

02 · Translation

It is Safari.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 440; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Drewes reads a Tigrinya-like copula and understands Safari as an agent noun from ‘measure/distribute’.

Sources

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

RIÉ 411
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 440
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 68, no. 61.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–440