01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicComplete published translation of the surviving eleven-line fragment
Native-script transcription is not available here.
Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.
02 · Translation
English reading
1 The king had arrived and wanted 2 to destroy him or it, while I was 3 at Aksum, according to the custom 4 of my ancestors. While I […], the one who had written 5 […] Aksum; while I was arriving, 6 […], while I was passing through, the one who had given 7 the one who had arrived before I arrived. 8 And I […] the king of Aksum. 9 I sent him to inspect Aksum. 10 The dḥr of my kingdom 11 […]
Independent English rendering of Drewes’s published French translation or lexical commentary; checked against the cited printed page(s).
The stone is fragmentary and several clauses no longer connect. The object of ‘destroy’ and the meaning and syntax of dḥr in line 10 are unknown.