01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
ʾana S-nuy waqaro
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English translation
I, S-nuy, carved it.
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 454; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
The verb is formally third-person (‘he carved it’) despite the first-person pronoun, a grammatical incongruity noted by Drewes.