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Aksumite eraRIÉ 348

RIÉ 348 pottery graffito

This inscribed pottery or graffito on pottery from Matara preserves one recognizable word, line 2.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicOne recognizable word, line 2

Transliterated reading

yafadi

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

02 · Translation

English translation

He will pay.

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

The rest of the inscription is not securely interpreted.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 348

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 348, p. 406.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–406