Aksumite eraRIÉ 290

RIÉ 290 seal

This seal from Matara preserves surviving short text or mark.

Date
around the beginning of the Aksumite period
Place
Matara
Language
Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script

Ancient South ArabianSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

z h (?)

Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

No English translation is available for this entry.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 370; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Possibly an abbreviation of the divine epithet ḎT ḤMN, or za- followed by the initial of a personal name. The signs and interpretation remain uncertain.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 290

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 370

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–370