DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 56

RIÉ 56: incense burner from Matara

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) on a incense burner of stone from Matara, Eritrea, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 2964.

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

[... ... 𐩹-]𐩢𐩵𐩤𐩬 [𐩠𐩤𐩬

𐩺 𐩲]𐩻𐩩𐩧 𐩥-𐩱𐩡[𐩣𐩤𐩠 ... ...]

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

[... ... ḏ-]Ḥdqn [hqn y ʿ]ṯtr w-ʾl[mqh ... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] of Ḥadāqān dedicated [this altar] to ʿAthtar and Almaqah […].

Habesha History translation of the DASI reading, compared with Abraham J. Drewes, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie, III/B, revised and adapted by Manfred Kropp, ed. Manfred Kropp and Harry Stroomer (2019), entry RIÉ 56, p. 87.

The beginning and ending are lost; 'this altar' is supplied from the support.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 56 / DASI 8679
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 56’, DASI, first published 2015-02-06.