01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
ʿAruf / ʿArufa / ʿAraft (?)
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English reading
A personal name perhaps meaning ‘quiet’ or ‘at rest’.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 430; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
The exact form depends on whether the upper sign is a vowel mark, cross, or t.