DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 53 B

RIÉ 53 B: altar from Addi Kerāmāten

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a altar of stone from Addi Kerāmāten, Eritrea, now recorded at Asmara, Archaeological Museum.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 [𐩡-]𐩹𐩩-𐩢𐩣[𐩬]

𐩣𐩧𐩱-𐩠𐩥

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

hqny [l-]ḏt-Ḥm[n] mrʾ-hw

02 · Translation

English translation

He dedicated to ḏt-Ḥmn, his Lord.

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 53 B Ry 399 b; IEA 57 A / DASI 1245
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 53 B’, DASI, first published 2013-10-01.