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Aksumite eraRIÉ 427

RIÉ 427 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

Yonatan

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

02 · Translation

English translation

The personal name Yonatan.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 449; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 427

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 449

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 72, no. 79.

Habesha History corpus

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–449