DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 14

RIÉ 14: throne from Hawlti

DASI catalogues this inscription on a throne of stone from Hawlti, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1658.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

|𐩧𐩰𐩦|

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

|Rfs²|

02 · Translation

English translation

Rfs².

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 14, p. 51.

The short legend is associated with the sculpted figures, but its interpretation is not secure.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 14 DEE, II, 26 / DASI 7810
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 14’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.