Aksumite eraRIÉ 443

RIÉ 443 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

dam-s- ʾana (?)

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

02 · Translation

I am Dam-s-, a name perhaps meaning ‘Destroy!’ or ‘Destroy it!’

Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 457; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.

Drewes prefers dam-s- over SMD- and relates it to the root ‘destroy/extinguish’.

Sources

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

RIÉ 443
Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 457
DAE illustration
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 75, no. 99.

Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie III.B (2019), pp. 2019–457