DʿMT & early highlandsMG 1

MG 1: altar from Mäqabər Ga‘əwa

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) on a altar of stone from Mäqabər Ga‘əwa, Ethiopia, now recorded at Wuqro, Museum.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Mäqabər Ga‘əwa, Wuqro, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...] 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬 (𐩮)[𐩧𐩲𐩬 ... ...]

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

[... ...] mlkn (ṣ)[rʿn ... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] the victorious king […].

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading.

The royal name and surrounding syntax are lost; no fuller continuous translation is possible.

Sources

Editions & references

Edition, catalogue, and image records used for this entry.

MG 1 DAI ʿAddi ʾAkawǝḥ 2008-4 / DASI 7363
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘MG 1’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.