DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 8

Rbḥ’s incense burner

Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCEAddi Gelemo, Ethiopia

The damaged incense burner names Rbḥ as victorious king of Ygʿḏ and mukarrib of DʿMT and Sabaʾ, then invokes his household and fields.

Reconstructed limestone incense altar JE 4 bearing RIÉ 8 on its visible faces — André Caquot and Abraham-Johannes Drewes, ‘Les monuments recueillis à Maqallé (Tigré)’, Annales d’Éthiopie 1 (1955), pl. IX (PDF p. 12), ‘Autel restitué (J. E., n° 4)’. Image: Archives de la Section d’Archéologie. Resized and converted to WebP.Reproduced with permission for Habesha History. No onward reuse licence.Enlarge image ↗

Early Sabaic

Excerpt

[… … 𐩧𐩨𐩢] 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬 𐩮𐩧𐩲𐩬 𐩺𐩴𐩲𐩹𐩺𐩬 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩵𐩲𐩣𐩩 𐩥𐩪𐩨𐩱 𐩨𐩬 𐩨𐩬 𐩥𐩲𐩧𐩬 𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬 [𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺𐩥 … …] 𐩡𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠𐩺 𐩨𐩲𐩡 𐩤𐩹[.]𐩧 𐩺𐩥𐩣 𐩠𐩢𐩵𐩪𐩥 [… …] 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩥 𐩧𐩨𐩢 𐩵𐩲𐩣𐩩 [𐩣𐩦𐩧𐩤𐩠𐩺] 𐩥[𐩣𐩲𐩧𐩨𐩠𐩺 … …] 𐩥𐩬𐩰𐩪𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩥𐩲𐩹𐩧𐩠𐩣𐩥 […]

Normalized script from the cited reading; brackets mark restored or missing text.

Transliteration

[… … Rbḥ] mlkn ṣrʿn Ygʿḏyn mkrb Dʿmt w-S¹bʾ bn bn Wʿrn Rydn [hqnyw …] l-ʾlmqhy bʿl Qḏ[.]r ywm hḥds¹w […] mlkw Rbḥ Dʿmt [ms²rq-hy] w-[mʿrb-hy …] w-nfs¹-hmw w-ʿḏr-hmw […]

English translation

[… Rbḥ], victorious king of Ygʿḏ, mukarrib of DʿMT and Sabaʾ, descendant of Wʿrn Rydn, [dedicated …] to ʾlmqhy, Lord of Qḏ[.]r; when he restored […], Rbḥ became king of DʿMT, [its east] and [its west …], his life and descendants […].

DASI CSAI English translation, condensed without changing restored/damaged status; data CC BY 4.0

Sources & references

RIÉ 8 / DASI 7767
Giulia Buono, ‘RIÉ 8’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05

Habesha History corpus

David W. Phillipson (2012), p. 38

Fabienne Dugast and Iwona Gajda (2012), p. 11