Aksumite eraRIÉ 429

RIÉ 429 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

hgs sbr (?)

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

02 · Translation

Perhaps: ‘Hagos engraved it’ (literally, ‘Hagos broke/cut it’).

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 450; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The name Hagos, ‘joy’, is plausible, but the second word and its relation to the name remain uncertain.

Sources

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

RIÉ 429
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 450
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 72, no. 81.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–450