Aksumite eraRIÉ 212

RIÉ 212 building-stone marks

This bloc from ʾAksum preserves selected interpreted marks from a composite catalogue of sixty-four inscribed building stones. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSelected interpreted marks from a composite catalogue of sixty-four inscribed building stones

Transliterated reading

Stone 28: z-MʿR Stone 38: z-[personal name?] Stone 49: ŚRB Stone 54: z-[…]

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

02 · Translation

English translation

Stone 28 probably marks a stone belonging to or supplied by MʿR, perhaps the personal name Maʿär (‘honey’). Stone 49 probably bears the personal name ŚRB. The other selected marks remain unresolved.

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

RIÉ 212 is not one continuous inscription. Most of its sixty-four stones bear only one or two letters. The Beta TEI sentence describing the group is metadata and is not inscription text.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 212
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 212, pp. 308–309.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 308–309