01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
msq- / sqm-
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 ‘my support’ or ‘their support’.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 441; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
Other possibilities include ‘their provisions’; neither reading nor etymology is secure.
