DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 46

RIÉ 46: stone piece from Yeha

DASI catalogues this inscription on a stone piece of stone from Yeha, Ethiopia.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...]𐩥-𐩹𐩩-𐩢𐩣𐩺𐩣 𐩹𐩩-[... ...]

Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.

Scholarly transliteration

[... ...]w-ḏt-Ḥmym ḏt-[... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] and Dhāt-Ḥamīm, Dhāt-[Baʿdān?] […].

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 46, p. 79.

RIÉ III/B regards restoration of Dhāt-Baʿdān as probable but not certain.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 46 DEE, IV, 47 / DASI 8018
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 46’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.