DʿMT & early highlandsMG 2

MG 2 — inscription on a seated-woman statue base

Inscribed limestone base belonging to a seated-woman statue, found in the middle sanctuary of the cella of the Almaqah temple at Mäqabər Gaʿəwa, near ʿAddi ʾAkawəḥ (Nebes 2010, p. 228, section 2.3). The reader image shows the base; the source figure shows the statue with its base.

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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

𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 𐩡-𐩥𐩫𐩨

𐩺𐩣𐩬𐩩((𐩺𐩣𐩬𐩩)) 𐩥𐩡𐩵𐩣 |

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

ʾlmqh l-wkb Ymnt((ymnt)) wldm |

02 · Translation

English translation

ʾlmqh may He give to Ymnt a child.

CSAI/DASI English translation; DASI record data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

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

MG 2 DAI ʿAddi ʾAkawǝḥ 2008-3 / DASI 7368
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘MG 2’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.
Nebes 2010, p. 228, section 2.3 — DAI 2008-3
Norbert Nebes, ‘Die Inschriften aus dem ʾAlmaqah-Tempel in ʿAddi ʾAkawəḥ (Tigray),’ Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 3 (2010), pp. 228–229, section 2.3 and Abb. 6.