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.

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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. The two lines run in opposite directions: line 1 left to right, line 2 right to left (Caquot and Drewes 1955, p.23).

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.
Original publication — plate VII
Archives de la Section d’Archéologie; original photographer not named. André Caquot and Abraham-Johannes Drewes, Les monuments recueillis à Maqallé (Tigré), Annales d’Éthiopie 1 (1955), pp.17–41, plate VII.
Original publication — plate VIII
Archives de la Section d’Archéologie; original photographer not named. André Caquot and Abraham-Johannes Drewes, Les monuments recueillis à Maqallé (Tigré), Annales d’Éthiopie 1 (1955), pp.17–41, plate VIII.