DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 21

RIÉ 21: incense burner from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this inscription on a incense burner of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 114.

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

[... ...]𐩡 𐩰𐩩𐩢𐩺[𐩬 ... ...]

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

[... ...]l Ftḥy[n ... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

No English translation is available for this entry.

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 21, p. 55.

The fragment preserves only part of a compound personal name and the qualifier Ftḥyn.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 21 Doc. 11; T. 10 / DASI 7886
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 21’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.