Aksumite eraRIÉ 393

RIÉ 393 monogram

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

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

ʾAʿgal / ʾAʿgalo (?)

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

02 · Translation

A personal name, perhaps an imperative related to ‘do violence’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 428; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Several other letter orders are possible; Drewes prefers ʾAʿgal/ʾAʿgalo.

Sources

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

RIÉ 393
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 428
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 65, no. 46.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–428