ComparisonsRIÉ 384

RIÉ 384 pottery graffito

This inscribed pottery or graffito on pottery from Matara preserves preserved personal name.

Date: commentary includes a pre-Aksumite comparison or possible assignment
Place: Matara
Language: Geʿez
Script: Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicPreserved personal name

Transliterated reading

nṣmt

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

02 · Translation

English translation

NṢMT (personal name of South Arabian origin).

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

The local form corresponds to South Arabian NẒMT: ṣ replaces the Semitic phoneme ẓ, which Geʿez had lost. The name is also attested in Safaitic and rendered in Greek as Natimathou.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 384
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 384, pp. 418–419.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–418