Aksumite eraRIÉ 420

RIÉ 420 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

Fassāḥa ʾana

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

02 · Translation

I am Fassāḥa.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 445; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The name can be related to ‘joy’ and may abbreviate a longer compound name.

Sources

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

RIÉ 420
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 445
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 71, no. 73.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–445