No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 93Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Inscription from Laʿlay ʿAddi
Two surviving words. Only the kinship phrase and name remain legible.
bn WDD
418 inscriptions
DʿMT and Aksumite texts in their attested scripts, with published translations and exact sources.

418 inscriptions in chronological order
No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 93Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Two surviving words. Only the kinship phrase and name remain legible.
bn WDD
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RIÉ 94Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Preserved personal name. The same name occurs in RIÉ 97 and has South Arabian parallels.
ʾWSM
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RIÉ 95Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Published translation. WDGLY is considered a local name of uncertain etymology; MʿDʾL is well attested in South Arabia.
WDGLY bn MʿDʾL
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RIÉ 96Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Alternative readings of a personal name. Both readings are possible; the inscription does not decide between them.
SFLN / KFLN
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RIÉ 97Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Preserved personal name. The same name occurs in RIÉ 94.
ʾWSM
No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 98Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Preserved personal name. Its grammatical form and interpretation remain uncertain.
YMNY
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RIÉ 99Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Surviving first line and proposed name gloss. The patronymic is lost after the kinship term.
YMNʾL bn […]
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RIÉ 100Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Alternative readings of a personal name. Neither reading is otherwise attested as a South Arabian personal name.
STʾM / NTʾM
No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 101Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Preserved personal name. The edition compares related names in RIÉ 9, 12, and 79.
RDYʾ
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RIÉ 102Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Probable local personal name. Drewes rejects Jamme’s reading and the translation ‘ʾAbih has slept [here].’
NḤBʾ (?)
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RIÉ 106Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Published translation. The verb is interpreted from the root wdd, ‘love’; the linguistic classification remains discussed in the commentary.
l-dd ʿstr
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RIÉ 107Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainLaʿlay ʿAddi
Two probable personal names. Both etymologies remain uncertain.
ḤQN / YʿM
No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 108Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainRuba Kodo
Published formula with abbreviated divine name. The preserved letters DḤ are understood as an abbreviation of the goddess DṮ ḤMN.
l-ṭḥw DḤ
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RIÉ 109Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainRuba Kodo
Possible remains of a known formula. The graffito is incomplete and difficult to read; the formula depends on the tentative reading of its first two letters.
tḥ[…] (?)
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RIÉ 110Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainRuba Kodo
Probable personal name and lexical gloss. The related Arabic root can also mean ‘be indulgent.’
ḤLM
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RIÉ 111Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainRuba Kodo
Alternative readings of a personal name. Neither reading is otherwise attested in South Arabia; QṢRY has a different possible derivation.
YṢRY / QṢRY
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RIÉ 113Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainRuba Kodo
Probable personal name and preferred gloss. The edition prefers derivation from the Ethiopian root ʾkl, ‘suffice,’ over a root meaning ‘eat’; a pronominal suffix would yield ‘it will suffice for him.’
YʾKL
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RIÉ 114Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainRuba Kodo
Probable personal name. The final r is not certain and the exact meaning of the underlying verb remains unresolved.
YMḤR
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RIÉ 115Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainRuba Kodo
Two names with one alternative reading. The first reading is insecure; DMLY is clear but its etymology is unknown.
SQY[M] / ʿQY[M] // DMLY
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RIÉ 116Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainZeban Mororo
Preserved personal name. It may be local; its root and exact form are uncertain.
ʾNʿN
No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 117Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainZeban Mororo
Preserved personal name and lexical relation. The final n may be South Arabian nunation; the name may nevertheless be local.
NQHN
No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 118Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainZeban Mororo
Preserved personal name. The same name occurs in RIÉ 117.
NQHN
No verified photograph or facsimile of this artifact has been retrieved.
RIÉ 119Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainZeban Mororo
Published translation. Both names are probably local; their precise verbal derivations remain uncertain.
HNQH bn HʿSʿL
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RIÉ 121Pre-Aksumite period; precise date uncertainZeban Mororo
Published translation with uncertain principal name. The reading BQLNYʾ is not entirely certain; the father’s name is well attested.
BQLNYʾ bn HʿN
Source register
RIÉ 1–443, with separately numbered text versions, supplements, and Arabian witnesses from the checked corpus and DASI. Dates and uncertain identifications follow the cited editions; missing texts, translations, and images are recorded below.
301–360 of 512 entries. Copies and language versions retain their own references.
Aksumite period; absolute chronology disputed · Daqqi Maḥari, Eritrea · Ancient Greek
Aksumite; year 24 of King Sembrouthes, absolute chronology debated
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Monumentum Adulitanum; before c. 210 CE, precise authorship/date debated
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Meroë · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Meroë · Ancient Greek
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Provenance not resolved · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Aksum · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
around the beginning of the Aksumite period · Matara · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
around the beginning of the Aksumite period
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Adulis · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Hawelti · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Hawelti · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Matara · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Adulis · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Aksum · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Aksum · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · ʿAddi Keramaten · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Matara · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Matara · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Matara · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
Aksumite corpus; date uncertain · Matara · Geʿez
Aksumite corpus; individual date uncertain
reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes, 246–221 BCE · ʾAdulis · Ancient Greek
reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes, 246–221 BCE
pre-Aksumite royal-name seal · Yeha · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
pre-Aksumite royal-name seal
commentary includes a pre-Aksumite comparison or possible assignment · Sabea · Geʿez in South Arabian-derived script
Possibly pre-Aksumite; retained for comparison
commentary includes a pre-Aksumite comparison or possible assignment · Matara · Geʿez
Possibly pre-Aksumite; retained for comparison