Aksumite eraRIÉ 420

RIÉ 420 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

Fassāḥa ʾana

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

02 · Translation

I am Fassāḥa.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 445; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The name can be related to ‘joy’ and may abbreviate a longer compound name.

Sources

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

RIÉ 420
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 445
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 71, no. 73.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–445