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Aksumite eraRIÉ 389

RIÉ 389 monogram

This monogram from ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region preserves surviving short text or mark.

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

Saʿum

Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

The personal name Saʿum, a passive form from ‘to kiss’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 425; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Also attested in RIÉ 437 and 440.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 389

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 425

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 65, no. 42.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–425