Aksumite eraRIÉ 204

RIÉ 204 stone inscription

This pierre from ʾAksum preserves partial published translation of a broken two-line text. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPartial published translation of a broken two-line text

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

1 To the stonecutters, [it] pleases (?) 2 that which […].

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

The restoration at the end of line 2 is uncertain, and the surviving syntax is incomplete.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 204

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 204, pp. 304.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 52, no. 21.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 304