Aksumite eraRIÉ 362

Pottery fragment from Matara

Possible ownership formula. The edition tentatively proposes a personal name ʾNYŚ preceded by the genitive marker, but both its reading and etymology are uncertain.

Date: Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place: Matara
Language: Geʿez / early Ethiopian epigraphy
Script: Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez / early Ethiopian epigraphy

EthiopicPossible ownership formula

Transliterated reading

z-ʾNYŚ (?)

Tentative reading from the published commentary; brackets and question marks preserve uncertainty.

02 · Translation

English translation

Of ʾNYŚ (personal name; reading uncertain).

Habesha History gloss after Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

A tentative name or word gloss, not a continuous translation.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ III.B commentary
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 362, p. 411.