DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 83

RIÉ 83: stone piece from Barachit

DASI catalogues this inscription on a stone piece of stone from Barachit, Eritrea, now recorded at Asmara.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩢𐩺𐩳𐩳 𐩨𐩬|

𐩠𐩨𐩺𐩣

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

Ḥyḍḍ bn| Hbym

02 · Translation

English reading

Ḥyḍḍ, son of Hbym.

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 83, p. 106.

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 83 / DASI 8879
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 83’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.