DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 57

RIÉ 57: 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 3983.

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

[... ...]𐩣 𐩨𐩬 𐩲𐩧—

𐩨𐩣 𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 [... ...]

[... ...](𐩥𐩨)[... ...]

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

[... ...]m bn ʿr— bm hqny [... ...] [... ...](wb)[... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[…]m, son of ʿrbm, dedicated [this altar] […].

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 57, p. 88.

The beginning of the dedicant's name and the object of the dedication are lost.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 57 DEE, III, 36 / DASI 8680
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 57’, DASI, first published 2015-02-06.