Aksumite eraRIÉ 209

RIÉ 209 mur

This mur from ʾAksum preserves possible inscription fragment or mason’s mark. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPossible inscription fragment or mason’s mark

Transliterated reading

w / ḥ / r (?)

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

02 · Translation

English translation

No English translation is available for this entry.

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

It is impossible to determine whether this is a fragment of an inscription or a mason’s mark; Littmann’s tentative sequence remains only possible.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 209

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 209, pp. 306–307.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 54, no. 25 A.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 306–307