Aksumite eraRIÉ 206

RIÉ 206 fragment

This fragment from ʾAksum preserves alternative interpretations of a two-line fragment. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicAlternative interpretations of a two-line fragment

Transliterated reading

ʾana […] / gb[…]

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

02 · Translation

English translation

Either ‘I, Gab[ra-…]’ / ‘I am Gab[ra-…]’, or, if the lost name stood on line 1, ‘I […] / made <this>’.

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

The fragmentary layout does not establish whether gb- begins the author’s name or the verb ‘I made’.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 206

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 206, pp. 305–306.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 305–306