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Aksumite eraRIÉ 413

RIÉ 413 monogram

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

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

Sawwun

Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

The personal name Sawwun, ‘fortified/protected’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 441; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Littmann's alternative Sawon as an abbreviated Ṣeyon-name is less likely.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 413

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 441

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 69, no. 63.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–441