DʿMT & early highlandsMG 4

MG 4: stone piece from Mäqabər Ga‘əwa

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a stone piece 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

𐩨-𐩬𐩭𐩺 𐩥𐩲𐩧𐩬 𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩭𐩺𐩧𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩴𐩧𐩨𐩺𐩬|

𐩨𐩬 𐩭𐩳𐩲𐩬 𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠|

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

b-nḫy Wʿrn hqny Ḫyrhmw grbyn| bn Ḫḍʿn ʾlmqh|

02 · Translation

English translation

With the guidance of Wʿrn, Ḫyrhmw, the stonemason, of the family Ḫḍʿn, dedicated to ʾlmqh.

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 4 DAI ʿAddi ʾAkawǝḥ 2008-2 / DASI 7546
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘MG 4’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.