DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 35

RIÉ 35: with bull head as gutter from Yeha

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a with bull head as gutter 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

𐩺𐩷𐩭𐩵 𐩨𐩬 𐩴𐩢𐩵𐩨𐩺 𐩠𐩤𐩬←𐩺 𐩠𐩥𐩨𐩪|←[𐩣]𐩲𐩬𐩬𐩬

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

Yṭḫd bn Gḥdby hqn←y Hwbs¹|←[M]ʿnnn

02 · Translation

English translation

Yṭḫd, son of Gḥdby, dedicated to Hwbs¹. Mʿnnn.

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 35 DEE, V, 51 / DASI 7919
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 35’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.