DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 53 C

RIÉ 53 C: altar from Addi Kerāmāten

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text (conjectural) 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

𐩥𐩧𐩲𐩬

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

Wrʿn

02 · Translation

English reading

Wrʿn.

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 53, p. 85.

RIÉ III/B prints the reading Wrʿn for Text III on the RIÉ 53 altar.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 53 C IEA 57 B / DASI 8677
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 53 C’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.