01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
ʾiyu … t-gh- (?)
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English reading
It is T-gh- (personal name uncertain).
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 426; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
Drewes reads the upper letters as a Tigrinya-like copula ʾiyu; the name below may derive from ‘watch/be vigilant’. Littmann's ‘Do not give up’ remains only an alternative.