Aksumite eraRIÉ 199

RIÉ 199 bassin

This bassin from ʾAksum preserves complete published translation.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete published translation

Native-script transcription is not available here.

The original letter forms are visible in the published artifact drawing. The transliterated reading, where present, follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

This is the basin that ʾHLL had made for mstʿzl.

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

Drewes identifies ʾHLL as a personal name. mstʿzl may be a personal name or denote a participant in an unknown rite; its meaning is unresolved.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 199

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 199, pp. 293.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 51, no. 18.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 293