DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 31

RIÉ 31: incense burner from Gobochela

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a incense burner of stone from Gobochela, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 111.

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

𐩺𐩡𐩨𐩨

𐩴𐩧𐩨𐩺𐩬

(𐩠)𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩡-←𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠

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

Ylbb grbyn (h)qny l-←ʾlmqh

02 · Translation

English translation

Ylbb, the stonemason, dedicated to ʾlmqh.

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 31 Doc. 5; T. 7 / DASI 7917
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 31’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.