DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 82

RIÉ 82: stone piece from Feqya

DASI catalogues this inscription 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

𐩠𐩲𐩬 𐩨𐩬 𐩢𐩺𐩥

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

Hʿn bn Ḥyw

02 · Translation

English translation

Hʿn, son of Ḥyw.

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 82, p. 106.

The text consists of a personal name and patronymic.

Sources

Editions & references

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

RIÉ 82 IEA 55 / DASI 8877
Giulia Buono (ed.), ‘RIÉ 82’, DASI, first published 2015-07-12.