Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 2 | ||
Chronology |
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R. Schneider hypothesized that this fragment could be a part of the inscription RIÉ 3; the aspect and the measures are comparable and the two inscriptions were found at the same site (Schneider 1978: 132). |
Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 1363 |
Support type | Artefact » Altar |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 12, w. (in the rear) 35, w. (in the front) 13 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Enda Tcherqos |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Aksum |
Country | Ethiopia |
Notes | The object was found by an inhabitant of Melazo near Enda Tcherqos. |
Link to site record |
Drewes and Schneider 1970: 58, pl. XV/b | Drewes, Abraham J. and Schneider, Roger 1970. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - II. Annales d'Éthiopie, 8: 57-72. |
Schneider 1978: 132 | Schneider, Roger 1978. Documents épigraphique de l'Ethiopie - VI. Annales d'Ethiopie, 11: 129-133. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 93, pl. 17 | 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] |