DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 87
Preferred identification within an uncertain text. Drewes prefers a personal-name interpretation of ḤYWT over Littmann’s tentative ‘for the life of ʾAgʷabat’; the exact form and etymology of the other names remain doubtful.
01 · Original text
Ancient South ArabianPublished reading; native-script edition unavailable
Transliterated reading
ḤYWT (?)
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
ḤYWT (probable personal name); the other names are uncertain.
Habesha History translation of Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019).
Sources
Edition, catalogue, and image records used for this entry.
Beta maṣāḥǝft, RIÉ 87: object record and edition references.
A. J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), no. 87, pp. 109–110.
Enno Littmann, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition IV (1913), p. 64, no. 38.
