Aksumite eraRIÉ 443

RIÉ 443 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

dam-s- ʾana (?)

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

02 · Translation

I am Dam-s-, a name perhaps meaning ‘Destroy!’ or ‘Destroy it!’

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

Drewes prefers dam-s- over SMD- and relates it to the root ‘destroy/extinguish’.

Sources

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

RIÉ 443
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 457
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 75, no. 99.

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