DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 23

RIÉ 23: stone piece from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this inscription on a stone piece of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia.

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

[𐩮𐩨𐩢𐩠𐩣𐩥] 𐩥-𐩡𐩢[𐩺 𐩨]—

𐩬𐩺 𐩺𐩤𐩵𐩣𐩱𐩡 [𐩨𐩬 𐩰... ...]

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

[Ṣbḥhmw] w-Lḥ[y b]— ny Yqdmʾl [bn F... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

Ṣbḥhmw and Lḥy, the two sons of Yqdmʾl of the family F[... ...]

CSAI/DASI English translation; DASI record data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 23 Doc. 28; T. 13 / DASI 7887
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 23’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.