DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 53 A

RIÉ 53 A: altar from Addi Kerāmāten

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a altar of stone from Addi Kerāmāten, Eritrea, now recorded at Asmara, Archaeological Museum.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Addi Kerāmāten, Senafe, Eritrea
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩠𐩲𐩹𐩨𐩱𐩡 𐩨𐩬 𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩩𐩲 |

𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩹𐩩-𐩢𐩣𐩺𐩣 |

Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.

Scholarly transliteration

Hʿḏbʾl bn ʾlmtʿ | hqny ḏt-Ḥmym |

02 · Translation

English reading

Hʿḏbʾl, son of ʾlmtʿ, dedicated to ḏt-Ḥmym.

CSAI/DASI English translation; DASI record data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 53 A Ry 399 a / DASI 1244
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 53 A’, DASI, first published 2013-10-01.