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Aksumite eraRIÉ 440

RIÉ 440 monogram

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

Date
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain
Place
surroundings of ʿAddi ʿAlawti / Qohayto region
Language
Geʿez
Script
Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

EthiopicSurviving short text or mark

Transliterated reading

Saʿum ʾana

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

02 · Translation

English translation

I am Saʿum.

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

See RIÉ 389 and 437.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. RIÉ 440

    Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 456

  2. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 74, no. 95.

Habesha History corpus

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