MG 4 DAI ʿAddi ʾAkawǝḥ 2008-2
Gajda, Selassie and Berhe 2009: 48, fig. 3
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| 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 | 8 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 b-nḫy Wʿrn hqny Ḫyrhmw grbyn|
2 bn Ḫḍʿn ʾlmqh|
| 1 | b-nḫy is followed by a royal name, while in MG 3 it is followed by divine names. See Gajda et alii 2009: 37-38, 40. b-nḫ is attested in RIÉ 26 and RIÉ 27 in association with a name of king. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 With the guidance of Wʿrn, Ḫyrhmw, the stonemason, 2 of the family Ḫḍʿn, dedicated to ʾlmqh. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Wuqro, Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 21, w. 76, th. 25 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Mäqabər Ga‘əwa |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wuqro |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Berhe 2009: 19, 22, 27, fig. 9 | Berhe, Hiluf 2009. Preliminary report on the archaeological excavation of Mäqabər Ga‘əwa at Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia). Annales d'Éthiopie, 24: 15-23. |
| Gajda, Selassie and Berhe 2009: 35-36, 40-41 | Gajda, Iwona, Selassie, Yohannes Gebre and Berhe, Hiluf 2009. Pre-Aksumite Inscriptions from Mäqabər Ga‘əwa (Tigrai, Ethiopia). Annales d'Éthiopie, 24: 33-48. |
| Nebes 2010 b: 226-227, fig. 5 | Nebes, Norbert 2010. Die Inschriften aus dem ʾAlmaqah-Tempel in ʿAddi ʾAkawǝḥ (Tigray). Zeitschrift für Orientarchäologie, 3: 214-237. |