Aksumite eraRIÉ 211

RIÉ 211 building-stone marks

This bloc from ʾAksum preserves single mason’s mark.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSingle mason’s mark

Transliterated reading

ʿ-shaped mark

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).

The sign is probably a mason’s mark in the shape of the letter ʿayn, not a translatable word.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 211

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 211, pp. 307.

  2. DAE illustration

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

Habesha History corpus

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