DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 81

RIÉ 81: 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

𐩺𐩢𐩬𐩬𐩣 𐩨𐩬 𐩲𐩺𐩵𐩵

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

Yḥnnm bn ʿydd

02 · Translation

English reading

Yḥnnm, son of ʿydd.

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 81, p. 105.

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 81 IEA 54 / DASI 8875
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 81’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.