Aksumite eraRIÉ 407

RIÉ 407 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

Mahari (?)

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

02 · Translation

Probably the personal name Mahari, ‘merciful’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 437; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Mahrat, ‘mercy’, is an alternative.

Sources

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

RIÉ 407
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 437
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 68, no. 57.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–437