RIÉ 42 RES 2629; Salt 1; Yeha VIII
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 121
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text (conjectural) |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription is known only by the R. Salt's copy. |
TEXT
1 |Ḥywm (l)q[... ...]
| 1 | Littmann hypothesized that this could be a bad copy of the inscription RIÉ 41 (Littmann 1913: 60). We can read (m)q. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Yeha |
| Ancient site | Yḥʾ |
| Geographical area | Tigray |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Notes | R. Salt reports that he saw the inscription in the ruins of the monastery of Abba Afsé in Yeha (Salt 1816: 210). |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Salt 1816: ii, 210 | Salt, Henry 1816. Voyage en Abyssinie. (2 vols), Paris: J.J. Paschoud, libraire, rue Mazarine, n° 22. |
| Müller, David H. 1896: 238 | Müller, David H. 1896. On the inscriptions from Yeha and Aksum. Pages 231-285 in J. Theodore Bent. The sacred city of the Ethiopians. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co.. |
| Littmann 1913: 60 | Littmann, Enno 1913. Sabaische, griechische und altabessinische Inschriften. Enno Littmann, Theodor von Lüpke and Daniel Krencker, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition. 4. Berlin: Reimer. |
| Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 121 | Bernand, Etienne, Drewes, Abraham J. and Schneider, Roger 1991. Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite. Introduction de Francis Anfray. Paris: de Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |