01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
Ysbr- / Y-ʿ-sbr-
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English translation
A personal name derived from ‘defeat/break’, perhaps ‘may he defeat [the enemy]’.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 444; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
Drewes rejects Littmann's Sabari because it does not account for all signs.