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Aksumite eraRIÉ 223

The Hawulti stela at Matara

A short memorial inscription states that ʾGZ commissioned the stela for his ancestors and that two named companions transported it.

Date
3rd century CE
Place
Matara, Eritrea
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicComplete text

ዘ ሀወለተ ዘአገበረ አገዘ ለአበወሀ ወሰሀበ መሀዘተ ወአወአለፈ ወጸበለ

Normalized transcription from the cited reading; original letterforms appear in the image.

Scholarly transliteration

z hwlt zʾgbr ʾgz lʾbwh wshb mhzt wʾwʾlf wṣbl

02 · Translation

English translation

This is the stela which ʾGZ had made for his ancestors. His friends, WʾLF and ṢBL, transported it.

English rendering of Drewes’s French translation, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III/B (2019), p. 320.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 223

    RIÉ 223 — Beta maṣāḥǝft / Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik; CC BY-SA 4.0

  2. Further reference

    Enno Littmann, DAE IV (1913), pp. 61–62, no. 34

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B, p. 318–322

Francis Anfray, Matara: the Archaeological Investigation of a City of Ancient Eritrea, p. 18