DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 26

RIÉ 26: stone piece from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a stone piece of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 100.

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

[... ... 𐩴](𐩧𐩨𐩺𐩬)[𐩠𐩬]

[𐩹]-𐩣𐩧𐩺𐩨 𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩱—

𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 𐩣𐩠𐩧𐩩 𐩺𐩵-

[𐩠](𐩣)𐩺 𐩨-𐩬𐩭 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

[... ... g](rbyn)[hn] [ḏ]-Mryb hqny ʾ— lmqh mhrt yd- [h](m)y b-nḫ Wʿrn|

02 · Translation

English translation

[... ...] the two stonemasons of Mryb dedicated to ʾlmqh the wealth of their hands, with the guidance of Wʿrn.

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 26 Doc. 2; T. 3 / DASI 7882
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 26’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.