01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
ʾ-y- Y-ʿ-sbr- / Ysbr-
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English reading
It is Yasabbar/Yasbar, a name meaning approximately ‘may he defeat [the enemy]’.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 436; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
The name and copula are partly reconstructed; the precise vocalization is uncertain.