DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 54

RIÉ 54: animal figure from Addi Kerāmāten

DASI catalogues this inscription on a animal figure 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

𐩥𐩠𐩨𐩥(𐩵)

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

Whbw(d)

02 · Translation

English reading

Whbwd.

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 54, p. 86.

RIÉ III/B identifies the short text as the personal name Whbwd.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 54 / DASI 8678
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 54’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.