01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicSurviving short text or mark
Transliterated reading
Saʿum … yakfat (?)
Original letter forms are preserved in the published facsimile. The reading follows Drewes’s later edition.
02 · Translation
English translation
Possibly: ‘May Saʿum open [it].’
Project English gloss after Abraham J. Drewes, RIÉ III.B (2019), printed p. 454; uncertainty follows Drewes's record-level discussion.
The second damaged word may instead derive from ‘desire’ or ‘accept’; even the proposed sentence remains obscure.