Aksumite eraRIÉ 430

RIÉ 430 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

zmk-

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

02 · Translation

Probably an abbreviated Za-Mikaʾel/Za-Mikiyas-type personal name.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 450; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The aleph and l needed for full Za-Mikaʾel are absent; several expansions remain possible.

Sources

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

RIÉ 430
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 450
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 72, no. 82.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–450