RIÉ 5 B
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: ii, pl. 3/5
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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 | ||
| Measure of letters | 8 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscriptions RIÉ 5 A and RIÉ 5 B are edited as a single inscription (Bernand et alii 1991) with the label RIÉ 5, but the palaeography of the two texts seems too different to accept without problem this hypothesis. |
TEXT
1 [... ... Dʿ]mt ms²rq-hy w-mʿrb-hy ʾdm-hy w-ṣlm-hy b-n—
2 ḫ ʿs¹tr w-Hbs¹ w-ʾlmqh w-ḏt-Ḥmym w-ḏt-Bʿdn [... ...]
| 2 | At the end: [w-ʾb-k Wdm]. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] Dʿmt, its east and its west, its Red and its Dark, with the 2 guidance of ʿs¹tr and Hbs¹ and ʾlmqh and ḏt-Ḥmym and ḏt-Bʿdn [... ...] |
| 1-2 | For the suffixed pronoun -hy, see the inscription Addi Akaweh 1. For the translation of b-nḫ, see Gajda et alii 2009: 40. |
| Gajda, Selassie and Berhe 2009: 40 | Gajda, Iwona, Selassie, Yohannes Gebre and Berhe, Hiluf 2009. Pre-Aksumite Inscriptions from Mäqabər Ga‘əwa (Tigrai, Ethiopia). Annales d'Éthiopie, 24: 33-48. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1370 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 21, w. 96, th. 48 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Enda Tcherqos |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Aksum |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | The inscribed stone was found reemployed in the wall of a church. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Schneider 1961: 61-62, pl. XXIV/a | Schneider, Roger 1961. Les inscriptions d'Enda Čerqos. Annales d'Ethiopie, 4: 61-66. |
| Jamme 1964: 347-348 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1964. Annales d'Ethiopie IV (Rewiew of). Bibliotheca Orientalis, 21: 346-349. |
| Schneider 1973: 387-388 | Schneider, Roger 1973. Deux inscriptions Sudarabiques du Tigré. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 30: 385-389. |
| Wissmann 1975 a: 94-97 | Wissmann, Hermann von 1975. Über die frühe Geschichte Arabiens und das Entstehen des Sabäerreiches. (Die Geschichte von Sabaʾ 1). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 13. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte, 301/5). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |
| Wissmann 1976 b: 43 | Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Die Mauer der Sabäerhauptstadt Maryab. Abessinien als sabäische Staatskolonie im 6. Jh. v. Chr. (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 38). [Leiden]: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut / Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut. |
| Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 72-73, pl. 3 | 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] |