Aksumite eraRIÉ 210

Inscribed mark from ʾAksum

Drewes rejects the proposed South Arabian reading and identifies the signs as probable mason’s marks.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicMason’s marks without a secure reading

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

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).

Drewes rejects the proposed South Arabian reading and identifies the signs as probable mason’s marks.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 210

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 210, pp. 307.

  2. DAE illustration

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