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RIÉ 400 monogram

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

Date
commentary includes a pre-Aksumite comparison or possible assignment
Place
ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

Sabūḥ

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

02 · Translation

English translation

The personal name Sabūḥ, interpreted as ‘born at daybreak’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 433; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Also attested in RIÉ 423.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 400

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 433

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 67, no. 53a.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–433