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 | 7 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
1 | For the reduplication of bn in the onomastic formula, see the inscription Addi Akaweh 1. |
6-7 | For ʾb-k Wdm, see the commentary in MG 3. |
English | |
1 Wʿrn Ḥywt, the victorious king, descendant of 2 S¹lmm Fṭrn and of S¹mʿtm, the wife, 3 daughter of Ṣbḥn, restored the temple 4 of Hbs¹, Lord of ʿḏt, when They made him 5 the king: ʿs¹tr and Hbs¹ and ʾlmqh 6 and ḏt-Ḥmym and ḏt-Bʿdn and 7 your father Wdm. |
Deposit | Aksum |
Support type | Artefact » Slab |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 60, w. 83 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Amda Tsyon |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Aksum |
Country | Ethiopia |
Notes | The object was found in 1972 by some farmers in the ruins of a building. |
Link to site record |
Schneider 1976: 81-86, fig. 4 | Schneider, Roger 1976. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - V. Annales d'Ethiopie, 10: 81-93. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 68, pl. 1/1 | 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] |