Aksumite eraRIÉ 404

RIÉ 404 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

Tomas; ʾana Za-Yoḥannəs

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

02 · Translation

Tomas. The surrounding, independent graffito says: ‘I am Za-Yoḥannəs.’

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 435; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The monogram and graffito name separate persons; they do not form ‘Tomas, servant of John’.

Sources

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

RIÉ 404
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 435
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 67, no. 54.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–435