DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 30

RIÉ 30: altar from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a altar of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 110.

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-𐩡𐩢𐩺 𐩨𐩬 𐩰𐩤𐩣—

𐩣 𐩹-𐩣𐩧𐩺𐩨 𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺|

𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 𐩡-𐩷𐩡|

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-Lḥy bn Fqm— m ḏ-Mryb hqny| ʾlmqh l-ṭl|

02 · Translation

English translation

Ṣbḥhmw and Lḥy of the family Fqmm of Mryb dedicated to ʾlmqh for the life.

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 30 Doc. 4; T. 6 / DASI 7916
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 30’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.