Aksumite eraRIÉ 302

RIÉ 302 small bronze object

This small bronze object from Yeha preserves surviving short text or mark.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Yeha
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

ḥnʾt (alternative tʾnh)

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

02 · Translation

English translation

Probably a personal name of uncertain, perhaps local Ethiopian, etymology.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 382; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The alternative direction tʾnh cannot be completely excluded.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 302

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 382

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–382