Aksumite eraRIÉ 214

RIÉ 214 stone inscription

This pierre from Abba Liqanos preserves tentative interpretation of a two-line fragment. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Abba Liqanos
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicTentative interpretation of a two-line fragment

Transliterated reading

ʾana [name lost] / gb[rku] (?)

The original letter forms are visible in the published facsimile. The transliterated reading, where present, follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

I, [name lost], made <this> (?).

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

The reading depends on restoring the final word as gabarku, ‘I made’; the personal name is illegible.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 214

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 214, pp. 310.

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 53, no. 23.

Habesha History corpus

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