DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 76

RIÉ 76: stone piece from Feqya

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text (conjectural) 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

𐩺𐩪𐩡𐩣 𐩨𐩬 𐩪—

𐩦𐩧𐩬

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

Ys¹lm bn S¹— s²rn

02 · Translation

English reading

Ys¹lm, son of S¹s²rn.

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 76, p. 102.

The text consists of a personal name and patronymic.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 76 IEA 49 / DASI 8836
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 76’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.