DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 72 A

RIÉ 72 A: stone piece from Feqya

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a stone piece of stone from Feqya, Eritrea.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩺𐩪𐩢𐩣𐩹 𐩨𐩬 𐩦𐩬𐩤𐩣𐩥

𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩡-𐩹𐩩-𐩢𐩣𐩬|

𐩥-𐩴𐩨𐩡𐩣 𐩨𐩬 𐩢𐩺𐩥

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

Ys¹ḥmḏ bn S²nqmw hqny l-ḏt-Ḥmn| w-Gblm bn Ḥyw

02 · Translation

English reading

Ys¹ḥmḏ, son of S²nqm, dedicated to ḏt-Ḥmn; and Gblm, son of Ḥyw.

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 72 A IEA 44 / DASI 8845
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 72 A’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.