01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicComplete published translation of eight lines
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 BZT, the king 2 of ʾGB, wrote <the inscription on> this stela 3 for himself. They, his people, dragged it to 4 ʾGB. They came 5 to the feast (?). They came <for> 6 fifteen days. He had beer supplied, 7 520 jars. He had supplied 8 20,620 loaves.
Independent English rendering of Drewes’s published French translation or lexical commentary; checked against the cited printed page(s).
The edition also allows ‘king of the ʾGB’. ‘Feast’ is conjectural. The subject shifts between the king and his people as inferred from context; unvocalized spelling does not distinguish singular and plural verbs.