DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 6

RIÉ 6: stone piece from Hawlti

DASI catalogues this royal inscription on a stone piece of stone from Hawlti, Ethiopia.

Date
Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place
Hawlti, Aksum, Ethiopia
Language
Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...]
[... ... 𐩱𐩵](𐩣)-𐩠𐩺 𐩥-𐩮𐩡(𐩣)-[𐩠𐩺 ... ...]
[... ... 𐩥-]𐩠𐩥𐩨𐩪 𐩥-𐩱𐩡[𐩣𐩤𐩠 ... ...]

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

[... ...] [... ... ʾd](m)-hy w-ṣl(m)-[hy ... ...] [... ... w-]Hwbs¹ w-ʾl[mqh ... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

[…] its people and its territories […] and Hwbs¹ and Almaqah […].

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 6, p. 39.

Only the surviving lexical items are rendered; a full royal formula is conjectural.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 6 Doc. 29; T. 14 / DASI 7573

    Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 6’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.