Aksumite eraRIÉ 432

RIÉ 432 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

Marir naya (?)

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

02 · Translation

Here I am, Marir.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 451; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The reading depends on whether the lower-right curve is r; Marir can mean ‘bitter’.

Sources

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

RIÉ 432
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 451
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 72, no. 84.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–451