Aksumite eraRIÉ 201

RIÉ 201 stone inscription

This pierre 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 facsimile. The transliterated reading, where present, follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

This is the stone that MHR had made.

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

The reading of the personal name is not wholly certain; Drewes probably vocalizes it Mahāri.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 201

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 201, pp. 300.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 49, no. 16.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 300