Aksumite eraRIÉ 334

RIÉ 334 pottery graffito

This inscribed pottery or graffito on pottery from Matara preserves possible lexical identification. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
Matara
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPossible lexical identification

Transliterated reading

dwl

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

02 · Translation

English translation

Region / boundary (?)

Habesha History translation of Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

The interpretation as classical Geʿez dawal remains hypothetical because the context is lost.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 334

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 334, p. 399.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–399