DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 37

RIÉ 37: altar from Yeha

DASI catalogues this royal dedicatory text - fragmentary on a altar of stone from Yeha, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 199.

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

[... ... 𐩥](𐩲)𐩧𐩬 𐩥-𐩨𐩦𐩣𐩩 𐩠𐩢𐩵𐩪𐩥 𐩡-𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 ←𐩣𐩷𐩧𐩺𐩬|

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

[... ... W](ʿ)rn w-Bs²mt hḥds¹w l-ʾlmqh ←mṭryn|

02 · Translation

English translation

[... ...] Wʿrn and Bs²mt restored the altar for ʾlmqh.

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 37 DEE, II, 33 / DASI 7920
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 37’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.