Aksumite eraRIÉ 425

RIÉ 425 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

ʾana whbm- / whbm- ʾana

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

02 · Translation

I am Whbm-.

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

The personal name may be Wahabomu or Wahubomu, from ‘give’; exact vocalization is uncertain.

Sources

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

RIÉ 425
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 447
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 71, no. 77.

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