01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
Safari ʾiyu
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English translation
It is Safari.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 440; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
Drewes reads a Tigrinya-like copula and understands Safari as an agent noun from ‘measure/distribute’.