Aksumite eraRIÉ 442

RIÉ 442 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

Naʿawe ʾ-y-

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

02 · Translation

This is Naʿawe.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 457; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The copula resembles Tigrinya ʾayyu; Naʿawi is disfavoured by the vowel order.

Sources

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

RIÉ 442
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 457
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 75, no. 98.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–457