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DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 86

Inscription from Tokhonda, engraved on a stone

Probable personal name. The name is otherwise unknown; its proposed compound structure has no convincing etymology.

Date
Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertain
Place
Tokhonda, engraved on a stone
Language
Early highland inscription
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Early highland inscription

Ancient South ArabianPublished reading; native-script edition unavailable

Transliterated reading

SBGLY

Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.

02 · Translation

English translation

SBGLY (personal name).

Habesha History translation of Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. Beta maṣāḥǝft RIÉ 86

    Beta maṣāḥǝft, RIÉ 86: object record and edition references.

  2. RIÉ III.B · no. 86

    A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 86, p. 109.

  3. DAE illustration

    Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 63, no. 37.