01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
Zafan (?)
Native-script transcription is not available here; the reading follows the cited edition.
02 · Translation
English translation
The personal name Zafan.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 424; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
Its etymology is uncertain; derivation from the verb ‘to dance’ is unlikely.