414 AXUM. 
Part of an Inscription at Asoum much defaced by the weather. 
Characters in the fifth line. 
^°ifl9VR(3oclr1r^/^^(Drti 
In the middle of the inscription, 
separate word. End of the last line but one. 
(j)f\r\f] ^^ptq rh CwK3 0 +r Qrti ^ 
Last line entire. 
ni(pf^| P^l f^P^r^ Ian nifil(Plrt7lh 
Unconnected characters from various parts of the stone. 
The same in modern characters, so far as can be determined. 
n|<DJ^|ixi I oD h I ^li ^ |/ 1 <D |rti |ri * 
Notwithstanding the characters difFer materially from those 
now employed, yet it is certain that they are Ethiopic, from 
most of the letters precisely resembling those in the present 
* The bars are inserted to mark where a want of connection occurs. 
