DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 15

RIÉ 15: stela from Hawlti

DASI catalogues this inscription on a stela of stone from Hawlti, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1641.

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

𐩥𐩲[𐩧𐩬]

[𐩢𐩺𐩥]𐩩|

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

Wʿ[rn] [Ḥyw]t|

02 · Translation

English translation

Wʿrn Ḥywt.

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 15, p. 52.

RIÉ III/B identifies the surviving sequence as the royal personal name Wʿrn Ḥywt.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 15 DEE, II, 24 / DASI 7584
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 15’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.