DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 4

RIÉ 4: stone piece from Enda Tcherqos

DASI catalogues this royal inscription on a stone piece of stone from Enda Tcherqos, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1873.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Enda Tcherqos, Aksum, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ... 𐩨𐩬 𐩨𐩬 𐩪𐩡𐩣𐩣]

𐩰𐩷[𐩧𐩬 ... ...]

[... ...] 𐩣𐩦𐩧𐩤-<𐩠>—

𐩺 𐩥-𐩣𐩲𐩧[𐩨-𐩠𐩺 ... ...]

[... ...]𐩣|

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

[... ... bn bn S¹lmm] Fṭ[rn ... ...] [... ...] ms²rq-<h>— y w-mʿr[b-hy ... ...] [... ...]m|

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] descendant of S¹lmm Fṭrn […] its east and its west […].

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 4, p. 34.

Only the visible words are rendered; the much longer restored formula in RIÉ III/B is not inserted into the main translation.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 4 / DASI 7567
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 4’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.