DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 11

Wʿrn’s Kaskase column

A terse two-line column inscription names Wʿrn Ḥywt and his descent from S¹lmm, without naming DʿMT.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE
Place: Kaskase, Eritrea
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩥𐩲𐩧𐩬 𐩢𐩺𐩥𐩩 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬|

𐩨𐩬 𐩨𐩬 𐩪𐩡𐩣𐩣|

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

Wʿrn Ḥywt mlkn| bn bn S¹lmm|

02 · Translation

English translation

Wʿrn Ḥywt, the king, descendant of S¹lmm.

English rendering after A. J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III/B (2019), p. 47.

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

Compare another published translation

Wʿrn Ḥywt, the king, descendant of S¹lmm.

DASI CSAI English translation; data CC BY 4.0

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 11 / DAE 35 / RES 3547 / DASI 7764
Giulia Buono, ‘RIÉ 11 DAE 35; RES 3547’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05

Habesha History corpus

David W. Phillipson (2012), p. 38

A. J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III/B (2019), p. 47.