Aksumite eraRIÉ 368

Pottery fragment from Matara

Possible personal name. The word may be incomplete and its final letter is not securely read. If that letter is r, the proposed name MDR may relate to Geʿez madr, ‘earth, ground, field.’

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez / early Ethiopian epigraphy

EthiopicPossible personal name

Transliterated reading

MDR (?)

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

02 · Translation

English translation

MDR (personal name?); possibly related to “earth, ground, field”.

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. 368, pp. 413–414.