Aksumite eraRIÉ 213

RIÉ 213 building-stone marks

This bloc from Meʾelan Debbas preserves complete three-line text with one conjectural noun.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Meʾelan Debbas
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete three-line text with one conjectural noun

Transliterated reading

z-qśw z-[m]qbr z-HMN

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

02 · Translation

English translation

This is the [stone, or inscribed text] of the tomb of HMN.

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

qśw is unattested; Drewes infers from context that it denotes either the stone itself or the text cut on it. HMN is an uncertain personal name.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 213

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 213, pp. 309–310.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 309–310