DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 99

Inscription from Laʿlay ʿAddi

Surviving first line and proposed name gloss. The patronymic is lost after the kinship term.

Date
Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertain
Place
Laʿlay ʿAddi
Language
Early highland inscription
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Early highland inscription

Ancient South ArabianPublished reading; native-script edition unavailable

Transliterated reading

YMNʾL bn […]

The native-script edition has not been retrieved. A transliterated name or word, when present, follows the cited commentary.

02 · Translation

English reading

YMNʾL, son of […]. The name probably means ‘my right hand is God.’

Habesha History translation of Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. Beta maṣāḥǝft RIÉ 99

    Beta maṣāḥǝft, RIÉ 99: object record and edition references.

  2. RIÉ III.B · no. 99

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 99, p. 115.