Aksumite eraRIÉ 184 D

RIÉ 184 D stone inscription

This pierre from ʾAksum preserves complete published translation of the surviving four-line fragment. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation of the surviving four-line fragment

Transliterated reading

1 […] 2 wzmyt … 3 … ʾGD … 4 …

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

02 · Translation

English translation

1 […] 2 wzmyt, and he made 3 a pact with ʾGD, 4 that this is not fitting.

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

The meaning of wzmyt is unknown, and the referent of the final statement is unclear.

Sources

Editions & references

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

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

Habesha History corpus

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