Aksumite eraRIÉ 413

RIÉ 413 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

Sawwun

Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

The personal name Sawwun, ‘fortified/protected’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 441; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Littmann's alternative Sawon as an abbreviated Ṣeyon-name is less likely.

Sources

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

RIÉ 413
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 441
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 69, no. 63.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–441