Left: view and detail of brief remnant of an inscription on a stone lying among the ruins on Gwal Saim; from its surviving first two letters (to the right of the vertical word separator), the second word appears to be 'hawulti' (), and most likely the complete inscription identified the person who erected a particular stele or monument. Below: Gwal Saim (small hill with ruin on top, with much larger Amba Saim behind: amba () means mountain in Tigrinya, gwal () means daughter) viewed from Site B-1; unexcavated rubblefield can be seen between Site B-1 and Gwal Saim. Note archaeological draftsman standing on rubble wall preparing site plan of small ruined building, believed to have been an Aksumite chapel, on Gwal Saim.

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