DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 84

RIÉ 84: slab from Dera

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a slab of stone from Dera, Eritrea.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...]𐩣 𐩹-𐩧𐩺—

𐩵 (𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺)[... ...]

[... ...] 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬

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

[... ...]m ḏ-Ry— d (hqny)[... ...] [... ...] mlkn

02 · Translation

English reading

[…]m, of Ryd, dedicated […]; […] the king.

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 84, p. 107.

RIÉ III/B leaves open whether Ryd is a family/clan name or a place name and whether 'the king' refers to the dedicant.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 84 DEE, I, 3 / DASI 8880
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 84’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.