DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 7

Yeha altar fragment of Wʿrn Ḥywt

A fragmentary royal altar text, partly restored from RIÉ 1, associates Wʿrn Ḥywt with Yeha but does not name DʿMT.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia; altar now in the National Archaeological Museum, Addis Ababa
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ... 𐩥𐩲𐩧𐩬] 𐩢𐩺[𐩥𐩩] ←[𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬 𐩮𐩧𐩲𐩬 ]𐩨𐩬 𐩨[𐩬 ] ←[𐩪𐩡](𐩣𐩣) 𐩰𐩷𐩧𐩬 (𐩥)-[𐩪𐩣𐩲𐩩𐩣 ]𐩲—

[𐩧](𐩫𐩺𐩩)𐩬 𐩠𐩢𐩵𐩪𐩥 𐩣𐩷𐩧𐩺𐩬←[... ...] 𐩴𐩨𐩧 𐩪𐩨[... ...]

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

[... ... Wʿrn] Ḥy[wt] ←[mlkn ṣrʿn ]bn b[n ] ←[S¹l](mm) Fṭrn (w)-[S¹mʿtm ]ʿ— [r](kyt)n hḥds¹w mṭryn←[... ...] gbr s¹b[... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[... ... Wʿrn] Ḥywt, the victorious king, descendant of S¹lmm Fṭrn and of S¹mʿtm, the wife, restored the altar [... ...]

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 7 / DEE IV 46 / DASI 7751
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 7’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05.

Habesha History corpus

David W. Phillipson (2012), p. 38

Fabienne Dugast and Iwona Gajda (2012), p. 11