Aksumite eraRIÉ 424

RIÉ 424 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

s-mu w-nb- / w-nb s-mu

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

02 · Translation

English translation

A compound personal name containing ‘his name’ and the obscure element wnb-.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 447; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The prior reading Onesimus/Wanasimon is rejected; the internal order remains uncertain.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 424

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 447

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 71, no. 76.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–447