01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
yrhb- (?)
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English translation
A personal name perhaps meaning ‘he will enlarge [it]’ or ‘may he enlarge [it]’.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 434; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
Reading from bottom to top is possible; earlier Bahriy/Baḥraya Krəstos interpretations are unconvincing.