DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 25

RIÉ 25: incense burner from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this inscription on a incense burner of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 62.

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

𐩥𐩲𐩧𐩬

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

Wʿrn

02 · Translation

English translation

Wʿrn.

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 25, p. 57.

The single word is a personal name arranged around the disc-and-crescent symbol.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 25 Doc. 8; T. 1 / DASI 7820
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 25’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.