DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 22

RIÉ 22: altar from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) on a altar of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 241.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Gobochela, Aksum, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ... 𐩰]𐩤𐩣[𐩣 ... ...]

[... ...] 𐩱𐩡→𐩣𐩤𐩠|

Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.

Scholarly transliteration

[... ... F]qm[m ... ...] [... ...] ʾl→mqh|

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] of [the family of] Fqmm […] dedicated [this altar] to Almaqah.

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 22, p. 55.

Square brackets mark the restorations adopted in RIÉ III/B; the dedicant's name is lost.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 22 Doc. 6; T. 12 / DASI 7884
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 22’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.