DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 63 A

RIÉ 63 A: incense burner (mqṭr) from Matara

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text (conjectural) on a incense burner (mqṭr) of stone from Matara, Eritrea, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 3175.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩣𐩤𐩷𐩧—

𐩣 𐩡-𐩦𐩧𐩤—

(𐩬)|

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

mqṭr— m l-S²rq— (n)|

02 · Translation

English reading

An incense altar for S²rqn.

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 63, p. 92.

This is the inscription on side A; RIÉ 63 B is the separate text on side B/base.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 63 A DEE, I, 1 A / DASI 8809
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 63 A’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.