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 |
1 | Mʿnnn seems to be an isolated name (Schneider 1976: 81 and Bernand et alii 1991: 114). |
English | |
1 Yṭḫd, son of Gḥdby, dedicated to Hwbs¹. Mʿnnn. |
1 | Mʿnnn seems an isolated name, not the name of a dedicated person to Hwbs¹. |
Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Yeha |
Ancient site | Yḥʾ |
Geographical area | Tigray |
Country | Ethiopia |
Link to site record |
Schneider 1976: 81-82, figs 1-3 | Schneider, Roger 1976. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - V. Annales d'Ethiopie, 10: 81-93. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 114, pls 31-32 | 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] |