DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 27

RIÉ 27: 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 112.

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

[.]𐩣𐩣 𐩴𐩧𐩨𐩺𐩬𐩠𐩬

𐩹-𐩣𐩧𐩺𐩨 𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 (𐩱)—

[𐩡]𐩣𐩤𐩠 𐩣𐩠𐩧𐩩 𐩺𐩵-

𐩠𐩣𐩺 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

[.]mm grbynhn ḏ-Mryb hqny (ʾ)— [l]mqh mhrt yd- hmy b-nḫ Wʿrn

02 · Translation

English translation

[.]mm, 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 27 Doc. 1; T. 8 / DASI 7883
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 27’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.