RIÉ 51 DEE, VI, 56
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: ii, pl. 41
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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 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| A letter m is on the front side of the altar. Irvine suggests that it could be the mason's mark (Irvine 1984: 52). |
TEXT
1 Hnʿm bn Q(s¹)mm
2 hqny l-S²yḥn
| 1 | Schneider: Ḫnʿm bn Qbmm. |
| 2 | S²yḥn could be interpreted as a theonym. See, Schneider 1978: 132 and Irvine 1984: 51-52. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Hnʿm son of Qs¹mm 2 dedicated (the altar) to S²yḥn. |
| Irvine 1984: 49 | Irvine, Arthur K. 1984. An Ethiopian Sabaean Inscription from Southern Tigre, Ethiopia. Journal of Semitic Studies, 29/1: 45-52. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Altar |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | w. 29.5 (left side) |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Samrē |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Mekele |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Notes | The altar was photographed for the first time in 1971 at Samrē by Patrick Gilkes. In 1974 it was re-photographed and copied by Jacques Mercier in a field, in the region of Gijet. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Schneider 1973: 389 | Schneider, Roger 1973. Deux inscriptions Sudarabiques du Tigré. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 30: 385-389. |
| Schneider 1978: 132-133, figs 5-6 | Schneider, Roger 1978. Documents épigraphique de l'Ethiopie - VI. Annales d'Ethiopie, 11: 129-133. |
| Irvine 1984: 45-52, pls 1-2 | Irvine, Arthur K. 1984. An Ethiopian Sabaean Inscription from Southern Tigre, Ethiopia. Journal of Semitic Studies, 29/1: 45-52. |
| Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 130, pl. 41 | 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] |