DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 78

RIÉ 78: stone piece from Feqya

DASI catalogues this dedicatory text - fragmentary (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

[... ...](𐩣)((𐩦)) 𐩨𐩬 𐩺𐩨𐩦𐩣

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)((s²)) bn Ybs²m

02 · Translation

English translation

[…]m, son of Ybs²m.

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 78, p. 104.

The start of the first personal name is lost.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 78 IEA 51 / DASI 8873
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 78’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.