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RIÉ 41 RES 3614; CIH 726; DAE 30
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 121
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Measure of letters | 7.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| This inscription is known only from the copy of the Deutsche Aksum-Expedition. |
TEXT
1 Lḥyʿ(ṯ)t [... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 10, w. 30 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Yeha |
| Ancient site | Yḥʾ |
| Geographical area | Tigray |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | The inscription was found reemployed in the wall of a church of Yeha. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Littmann 1913: 59-60 | Littmann, Enno 1913. Sabaische, griechische und altabessinische Inschriften. Enno Littmann, Theodor von Lüpke and Daniel Krencker, Deutsche Aksum-Expedition. 4. Berlin: Reimer. |
| Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 120-121 | 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] |