DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 63 B

RIÉ 63 B: incense burner (mqṭr) from Matara

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text on a incense burner (mqṭr) of stone from Matara, Eritrea, now recorded at Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 3175.

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]-𐩬𐩭 𐩡𐩣—

𐩬 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬|

𐩠𐩤𐩬𐩺 (𐩨)—

[.](𐩠)𐩣 𐩨𐩬

[... ...](𐩬𐩣)𐩥

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]-nḫ Lm— n mlkn| hqny (B)— [.](h)m bn [... ...](nm)w

02 · Translation

English translation

[... ...] with the guidance of Lmn, the king, (B)[.](h)m son of ... dedicated [... ...]

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 63 B DEE, I, 1 B+C / DASI 8810
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 63 B’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.