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 (conjectural) |
This inscription and RIÉ 53 B are written on the frame decorated with dentils of the altar. RIÉ 53 A is on the front side of the altar. |
Deposit | Asmara, Archaeological Museum |
Support type | Artefact » Altar |
Shape | Squared |
Material | Stone |
Measures | Base: h. 39, w. 56, th. 49 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Addi Kerāmāten |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Senafe |
Country | Eritrea |
Link to site record |
Davico 1946: 1-6, plate | Davico, A. 1946. Ritrovamenti sud-arabici nella zona di Cascasè. Rassegna studi etiopici, 5: 1-6. |
Drewes 1962: 23 | Drewes, Abraham J. 1962. Inscriptions de l'Éthiopie antique. Leiden: E. J. Brill. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 135-136, pl. 43 | 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] |