DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 17

RIÉ 17: stela from Hawlti

DASI catalogues this inscription on a stela of stone from Hawlti, Ethiopia.

Date: Pre-Aksumite; absolute date not supplied by DASI
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

[... ...]𐩣[... ...]𐩲𐩧[𐩫𐩩𐩬 ((𐩲𐩧𐩫𐩺𐩩𐩬))... ...]

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

[... ...]m[... ...]ʿr[ktn ((ʿrkytn))... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

No English translation is available for this entry.

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 17, p. 53.

Only the damaged relational adjective ʿrktn/ʿrkytn survives; RIÉ III/B treats the restoration as probable, not certain.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 17 DEE, II, 25 / DASI 7586
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 17’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.