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 | 5.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Royal inscription | Yes |
It could be considered a royal inscription, Fṭrn is a patronymic in the royal inscriptions (see also the inscriptions RIÉ 1, RIÉ 5, RIÉ 9, RIÉ 10). |
Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1873 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 48, w. 33 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Enda Tcherqos |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Aksum |
Country | Ethiopia |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | The inscription was found in 1958, reemployed in the wall of a church. |
Link to site record |
Schneider 1961: 63-64, 66, pl. XXXVII/a | Schneider, Roger 1961. Les inscriptions d'Enda Čerqos. Annales d'Ethiopie, 4: 61-66. |
Schneider 1976: 89 | Schneider, Roger 1976. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - V. Annales d'Ethiopie, 10: 81-93. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 71-72, pl. 2/3 | 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] |