DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 62

RIÉ 62: altar (mṭry) from Matara

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a altar (mṭry) of stone from Matara, Eritrea, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 4020.

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

𐩡-𐩬𐩨𐩷𐩱𐩡 𐩦𐩥𐩲𐩬 𐩨—

𐩬 𐩺𐩱𐩩𐩥 𐩣𐩷𐩧𐩺𐩬 𐩡-𐩠𐩨𐩪

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

l-Nbṭʾl S²wʿn b— n Yʾtw mṭryn l-Hbs¹

02 · Translation

English translation

By Nbṭʾl S²wʿn, son of Yʾtw, this altar to Hbs¹

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 62 DEE, III, 37 / DASI 8683
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 62’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.