DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 51

RIÉ 51: altar from Samrē

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a altar of stone from Samrē, Ethiopia.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩠𐩬𐩲𐩣 𐩨𐩬 𐩤(𐩪)𐩣𐩣

𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩡-𐩦𐩺𐩢𐩬

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

Hnʿm bn Q(s¹)mm hqny l-S²yḥn

02 · Translation

English translation

Hnʿm son of Qs¹mm dedicated (the altar) to S²yḥn.

CSAI/DASI English translation; DASI record data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 51 DEE, VI, 56 / DASI 8673
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 51’, DASI, first published 2015-02-06.