Aksumite eraRIÉ 184 B

RIÉ 184 B stone inscription

This pierre from ʾAksum preserves partial interpretation of the first two lines. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
ʾAksum
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPartial interpretation of the first two lines

Native-script transcription is not available here.

Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

The first two lines mean either ‘as we wrote’ or ‘as he wrote to me’ (also possible: ‘as they wrote to me’). The rest is unintelligible.

Independent English rendering of Drewes’s published French translation or lexical commentary; checked against the cited printed page(s).

Only the opening construction can be interpreted; the continuation remains unintelligible.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 184 B

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 184 B, pp. 193.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 193