Aksumite eraRIÉ 417

RIÉ 417 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

Sawwun

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

02 · Translation

The personal name Sawwun, ‘fortified/protected’.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 443; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

See RIÉ 413.

Sources

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

RIÉ 417
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 443
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 70, no. 67.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–443