DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 34

RIÉ 34: incense burner (mqṭr) from Yeha

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a incense burner (mqṭr) of stone from Yeha, Ethiopia.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩢𐩵𐩥𐩪𐩬 ←𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩲𐩺𐩨𐩪

𐩬𐩰𐩪-𐩠𐩥 𐩣𐩤(𐩷)←𐩧𐩬|

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

Ḥdws¹n ←hqny ʿybs¹ nfs¹-hw mq(ṭ)←rn|

02 · Translation

English translation

Ḥdws¹n dedicated for (?) his life the incense burner.

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 34 DEE, IV, 54 / DASI 8533
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 34’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.