Aksumite eraRIÉ 373

RIÉ 373 pottery graffito

This inscribed pottery or graffito on pottery from Matara preserves possible final phrase. The reading or interpretation remains uncertain.

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPossible final phrase

Native-script transcription is not available here.

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

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] here / in this [cup] (?)

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

Only the proposed final word baza is provisionally interpretable. The preceding letters are problematic; the suggested reading ‘meat’ is explicitly speculative.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 373
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 373, p. 415.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–414