Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
1-3 | Wʿrn, the first name of the sovereign, and the matronymic S¹mʿtm can be integrated on the basis of the inscription RIÉ 1. |
2 | For the reduplication of bn in the onomastic formula, see the inscription Addi Akaweh 1. |
English | |
1 [... ... Wʿrn] Ḥywt, the victorious king, descendant of S¹lmm Fṭrn and of S¹mʿtm, 2 the wife, restored the altar [... ...] |
Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 4819 |
Support type | Artefact » Altar (mṭry) |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 12.5, w. 42, th. 15 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Yeha |
Ancient site | Yḥʾ |
Geographical area | Tigray |
Country | Ethiopia |
Link to site record |
Drewes and Schneider 1970: 60 | Drewes, Abraham J. and Schneider, Roger 1970. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - II. Annales d'Éthiopie, 8: 57-72. |
Schneider 1972: 102, 106-108, figs 3-5 | Schneider, Roger 1972. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie — IV. Annales d'Ethiopie, 9: 102-113. |
Schneider 1976: 86, 88-89 | Schneider, Roger 1976. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - V. Annales d'Ethiopie, 10: 81-93. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 74-75, pl. 4/7 | 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] |