DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 79

RIÉ 79: stone piece from Feqya

DASI catalogues this inscription 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

𐩧𐩵𐩱((𐩧𐩵𐩱))

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

Rdʾ((rdʾ))

02 · Translation

English reading

Rdʾ.

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 79, p. 104.

RIÉ III/B identifies the single word as a personal name.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 79 IEA 52 / DASI 8874
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 79’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.