RIÉ 9 Abuna Garimā I
Schneider 1973: pl. XIV, fig. 1
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- Schneider 1973: pl. XIV, fig. 1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The incense burner is similar to Addi Akaweh 1. |
TEXT
1 Rdʾm[ mlkn ṣ]←rʿn S¹ryt m←[krb ]Dʿmt bn
2 bn S¹lm(m) (Fṭ)→[r](n) w-(Ṣ)rʿt ʿr→[ktn] hḥds¹w [m]—
3 qṭrtn l-Rb← bʿl ʾw←[.]ḥ ywm ml—
4 kw Dʿmt [m]→s²rq-hy w-→(m)ʿrb-hy S¹b—
5 ʾ-hy w-ʿbr-(h)←y ʾdm-hy[ ←w-]ṣlm-hy b-s¹—
6 qt ʿs¹tr w-[H]→wbs¹ w-ʾlm→qy w-ḏt Ḥm—
7 n w-ḏt Bʿdn ←w-ʾb-k Wd←m [b]n ʿ(t)km|
| 1 | For the commentary, see the inscription Addi Akaweh 1. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Rdʿm, the victorious king of S¹ryt, mukarrib of Dʿmt, descendant 2 of S¹lmm Fṭrn and of Ṣrʿt, the wife, restored 3 two incense burners for Rb, Lord of ʾw[.]ḥ, when 4 he became the king of Dʿmt its east and its west, 5 its Sabaeans and its settlers, its Red and its Black. With 6 the protection of ʿs¹tr and Hwbs¹ and ʾlmqy and ḏt-Ḥmn 7 and ḏt-Bʿdn and may your father Wdm (save you) from any opponent (?). |
| 1 | For the commentary of the translation, see the inscription Addi Akaweh 1. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Abba Garima, Church |
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner (mqṭr) |
| Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 80, w. of the base 25 (lower part), 20 (upper part) |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | ʿAddi ʾAkawǝḥ |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wuqro |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Schneider 1973: 385-387, pl. XIV, figs 1-3 | Schneider, Roger 1973. Deux inscriptions Sudarabiques du Tigré. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 30: 385-389. |
| Schneider 1976: 87-89, figs 5-7 | Schneider, Roger 1976. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - V. Annales d'Ethiopie, 10: 81-93. |
| Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 78-79, pl. 7 | 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] |
| Robin and de Maigret 1998: 788-789 | Robin, Christian J. and de Maigret, Alessandro 1998. Le Grand Temple de Yéha (Tigray, Éthiopie), après la première campagne de fouilles de la Mission française (1998). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 142: 737-798. |
| Gajda and Selassie 2009: 52-53 | Gajda, Iwona and Selassie, Yohannes Gebre 2009. Pre-Aksumite inscribed incense burner and some architectural ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia). Annales d'Éthiopie, 24: 49-61. |