01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSelected lexical interpretations from three otherwise uninterpreted lists
Transliterated reading
smn; mrbʿt; mkʿb; zkn
Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.
02 · Translation
English reading
smn: probably ‘eight’ or ‘eightfold’; mrbʿt: possibly ‘square’, ‘fourfold’, ‘four parts’, or ‘a quarter’; mkʿb: perhaps ‘double’ or ‘two’; zkn: ‘elephant’, probably used as a personal name.
Independent English rendering of Drewes’s published French translation or lexical commentary; checked against the cited printed page(s).
Drewes states that the interpretation of all three texts remains problematic. The repeated number words suggest enumerations or lists, but their purpose is unknown.