DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 55

RIÉ 55: altar from Matara

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary on a altar of stone from Matara, Eritrea, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 4698+JE 2771.

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

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ... ](𐩨)𐩬 𐩩𐩨𐩲𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩹-↯𐩢𐩵𐩤𐩬 𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩲𐩻[𐩩𐩧 ... ...]

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

[... ... ](b)n Tbʿkrb ḏ-↯Ḥdqn hqny ʿṯ[tr ... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[... ...] son of Tbʿkrb of Ḥdqn dedicated to ʿṯtr [... ...]

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 55 DEE, IV, 48 / DASI 8461
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 55’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.