DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 70

RIÉ 70: animal figure from Dibdib

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a animal figure of stone from Dibdib, Eritrea, now recorded at Asmara, Archaeological Museum.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩠𐩢𐩡𐩬𐩺

𐩨𐩬 𐩵𐩰𐩱𐩣 ←𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩡-𐩠𐩨𐩪

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

Hḥlny bn Dfʾm ←hqny l-Hbs¹

02 · Translation

English reading

Hḥlny, son of Dfʾm, dedicated to Hbs¹

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 70 / DASI 8832
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 70’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.