Aksumite eraRIÉ 441

RIÉ 441 monogram

This monogram from surroundings of ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region preserves surviving short text or mark.

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

SMR

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

02 · Translation

The personal name Samur or Samra, from a root meaning ‘be content/happy’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 456; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The consonants are secure but vocalization is not.

Sources

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

RIÉ 441
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 456
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 75, no. 97.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–456