DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 72 B

RIÉ 72 B: stone piece from Feqya

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text (conjectural) on a stone piece of stone from Feqya, Eritrea.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A)
Place: Feqya, Senafe, Eritrea
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[𐩺𐩪]𐩢𐩣𐩹 𐩨𐩬 𐩦𐩬𐩤𐩣

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

[Ys¹]ḥmḏ bn S²nqm

02 · Translation

English translation

Ys¹ḥmḏ, son of S²nqm.

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 72, p. 97.

This is Text II; RIÉ 72 A is the longer dedication on the associated stone.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 72 B IEA 45 / DASI 8846
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 72 B’, DASI, first published 2015-05-03.