DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 20

RIÉ 20: incense burner from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a incense burner of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 63.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Gobochela, Aksum, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...]𐩲𐩹(𐩨)𐩣((𐩲𐩹(𐩱)𐩣)) [... ...]

[... ... 𐩠𐩤]𐩬𐩺 𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 [... ...]

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

[... ...]ʿḏ(b)m((ʿḏ(ʾ)m)) [... ...] [... ... hq]ny ʾlmqh [... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[... ...]ʿḏbm [... ...] [... ...] dedicated to ʾlmqh [... ...]

CSAI/DASI English translation; DASI record data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 20 Doc. 10; T. 2 / DASI 7885
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 20’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.