Aksumite eraẒafār 08-077

Ẓafār 08-077, Geʿez church fragment

A vocalized-Geʿez fragment from the Himyarite capital probably belongs to an Aksumite report mentioning a church, tribute, Mary, and death.

Date: after 525 CE
Place: Ẓafār, Yemen
Language: Geʿez
Script: Ethiopic

01 · Original text

Geʿez

Ethiopicall surviving lines 1–8

Transliterated reading

1 … b.m … 2 … [śa]rāʿkəwwo … 3 … (ʾə)nta ḥanaṣ[ku] … 4 … [ba](na)ṣu beta krə[stiyān] … 5 … [ʾa]nbaru ṣabbḥ[ta] … 6 … śu wa-zaka[ru] … 7 … [Mā](r)yām wa- … 8 … mota …

The photograph and scholarly transliteration preserve the available reading; no native-script transcription is supplied here.

02 · Translation

English translation

1 … 2 … I installed him … 3 … which [I] built … 4 … they built a church … 5 … they imposed tribute … 6 … and they remembered … 7 … Mary and … 8 … death …

Project English rendering of Walter W. Müller's line-by-line German translation, Aethiopica 15 (2012), p. 10.

Sources

Editions & references

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

Ẓafār 08-077
Walter W. Müller, ‘Äthiopische Inschriftenfragmente aus der himjarischen Hauptstadt Ẓafār’, Aethiopica 15 (2012), pp. 10–13, fig. 1
Ẓafār fragments
Walter W. Müller, ‘Äthiopische Inschriftenfragmente aus der himjarischen Hauptstadt Ẓafār’, Aethiopica 15 (2012), pp. 7–21.