01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicComplete published translation across four faces, with a lost sculptor’s name
Native-script transcription is not available here.
Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.
02 · Translation
English reading
Face A: 1 [He] carved 2 [cross] this— Face B: 1 basin— Face C: 1 for me, and he 2 completed it. Face D: [cross]
Independent English rendering of Drewes’s published French translation or lexical commentary; checked against the cited printed page(s).
The maker’s name stood in the lacuna on Face A. The translation follows the object’s four-face layout rather than smoothing it into a single sentence.