DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 18

RIÉ 18: stone piece from Enda Tcherqos

DASI catalogues this inscription on a stone piece of stone from Enda Tcherqos, Ethiopia, now recorded at Aksum, Museum.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Enda Tcherqos, 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) 𐩨((𐩳))𐩧 𐩣𐩺𐩱 𐩡-𐩥[... ...]

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) b((ḍ))r myʾ l-w[... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] Wʿrn […].

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 18, p. 53.

RIÉ III/B states that, apart from the personal name Wʿrn, the text is unintelligible and may not be Sabaic.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 18 DEE, II, 27 / DASI 7811
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 18’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.