DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 42

RIÉ 42: stone piece from Yeha

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text (conjectural) on a stone piece of stone from Yeha, Ethiopia.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

|𐩢𐩺𐩥𐩣 (𐩡)𐩤[... ...]

Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.

Scholarly transliteration

|Ḥywm (l)q[... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

Ḥywm […].

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 42, p. 77.

RIÉ III/B cautions that this could be a bad copy of RIÉ 41 and that the interpretation remains uncertain.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 42 RES 2629; Salt 1; Yeha VIII / DASI 8464
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 42’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.