DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 52

RIÉ 52: sculpture in the round from Addi Gelemo

DASI catalogues this inscription on a sculpture in the round of stone from Addi Gelemo, Ethiopia, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 3.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩡-𐩥𐩫𐩨 𐩺𐩣𐩬𐩩((𐩺𐩣𐩬𐩩))

𐩥𐩡𐩵𐩣|

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

l-wkb Ymnt((ymnt)) wldm|

02 · Translation

English translation

May He give to Ymnt a child.

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 52 / DASI 8645
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 52’, DASI, first published 2015-02-06.