Aksumite eraRIÉ 419

RIÉ 419 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

Lzb- z-q-s-wa; Trf-; N-ʿay ʾana

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

02 · Translation

English translation

It was Lzb- who engraved it. Trf-. I am N-ʿay.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 444; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The object has three monograms/text units. Vocalizations of Lzb-, Trf-, and N-ʿay remain uncertain.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 419

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 444

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 70, no. 70–71–72.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–444