Aksumite eraRIÉ 439

RIÉ 439 monogram

This monogram from surroundings of ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region preserves surviving short text or mark.

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

ʾZB ʾana; Bāzenay ʾ-y-

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

02 · Translation

I am ʾZB. This is Bāzenay.

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 456; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

The two texts name separate people. ʾZB may be vocalized ʾAzeb, ‘south wind’.

Sources

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

RIÉ 439
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 456
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 74, no. 94.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–456