Aksumite eraRIÉ 419

RIÉ 419 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

Lzb- z-q-s-wa; Trf-; N-ʿay ʾana

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

02 · Translation

It was Lzb- who engraved it. Trf-. I am N-ʿay.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 444; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The object has three monograms/text units. Vocalizations of Lzb-, Trf-, and N-ʿay remain uncertain.

Sources

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

RIÉ 419
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 444
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 70, no. 70–71–72.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–444