DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 8

Rbḥ’s incense burner

The damaged incense burner names Rbḥ as victorious king of Ygʿḏ and mukarrib of DʿMT and Sabaʾ, then invokes his household and fields.

Date
Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE
Place
Addi Gelemo, Ethiopia
Language
Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ... 𐩧𐩨](𐩢) 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬 𐩮𐩧𐩲𐩬 𐩺𐩴←𐩲𐩹𐩺𐩬 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩵𐩲𐩣𐩩
𐩥-𐩪𐩨𐩱 𐩨𐩬 𐩨𐩬 𐩥𐩲𐩧𐩬 →𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬 𐩠[𐩤𐩬𐩺𐩥 ... ...] →(𐩡)-𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠𐩺 𐩨𐩲𐩡 𐩤𐩹—
[.](𐩧) 𐩺𐩥𐩣 𐩠𐩢𐩵𐩪𐩥 𐩲←[... ...]←[.] 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩥 (𐩧𐩨𐩢) [𐩵𐩲]𐩣(𐩩)
[𐩣𐩦𐩧𐩤-𐩠𐩺] 𐩥-[𐩣𐩲]𐩧𐩨-𐩠𐩺 →[... ...]→[... ...](𐩥)-𐩬𐩰𐩪-𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩥-𐩲(𐩹)[𐩧-𐩠]—
[𐩣𐩥] (𐩥)-𐩬𐩰𐩪 𐩱𐩬𐩪𐩩-(𐩣)[𐩥] ←[... ...]←[... ... ]𐩥-𐩨𐩺𐩩-𐩣[𐩥 𐩥]-(𐩢)𐩤𐩡-[𐩣𐩥]
[... ...](𐩣)[𐩤] (𐩬𐩰)[𐩪... ...]

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

[... ... Rb](ḥ) mlkn ṣrʿn Yg←ʿḏyn mkrb Dʿmt w-S¹bʾ bn bn Wʿrn →Rydn h[qnyw ... ...] →(l)-ʾlmqhy bʿl Qḏ— [.](r) ywm hḥds¹w ʿ←[... ...]←[.] mlkw (Rbḥ) [Dʿ]m(t) [ms²rq-hy] w-[mʿ]rb-hy →[... ...]→[... ...](w)-nfs¹-hmw w-ʿ(ḏ)[r-h]— [mw] (w)-nfs¹ ʾns¹t-(m)[w] ←[... ...]←[... ... ]w-byt-m[w w]-(ḥ)ql-[mw] [... ...](m)[q] (nf)[s¹... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[… Rbḥ], victorious king of Ygʿḏ, mukarrib of DʿMT and Sabaʾ, descendant of Wʿrn Rydn, [dedicated …] to ʾlmqhy, Lord of Qḏ[.]r; when he restored […], Rbḥ became king of DʿMT, [its east] and [its west …], his life and descendants […].

DASI CSAI English translation, condensed without changing restored/damaged status; data 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.

  1. RIÉ 8 / DASI 7767

    Giulia Buono, ‘RIÉ 8’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05

Habesha History corpus

David W. Phillipson (2012), p. 38

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