DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 61

Matara altar invoking Lmn and S¹mhʿly

A fragmentary altar invokes ḏt-Bʿdn, S¹mhʿly and Lmn as lords; its Lmn connection is relevant but it does not name DʿMT.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Matara, Senafe area, Eritrea; excavated in Mound B room 33, not in situ
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...𐩣](𐩧)[𐩱]𐩣𐩣((𐩻𐩧𐩪𐩣𐩣)) 𐩥-𐩧[..](𐩩)[... ...]

[... ...] 𐩥-𐩨-𐩹𐩩-𐩨𐩲𐩵𐩬 𐩥-𐩨-𐩪𐩣𐩠𐩲𐩡𐩺 → [𐩥-𐩨-]𐩡𐩣𐩬 𐩱𐩣𐩧𐩱-𐩠[𐩣𐩥 ... ...]

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](r)[ʾ]mm((Ṯrs¹mm)) w-R[..](t)[... ...] [... ...] w-b-ḏt-Bʿdn w-b-S¹mhʿly → [w-b-]Lmn ʾmrʾ-h[mw ... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[... ...] Mrʾmm and R[..]t[... ...] [... ...] and by ḏt-Bʿdn and by S¹mhʿly and by Lmn, their lords [... ...]

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 61 / DASI 8682
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 61’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.