The automatic translation is necessarily imprecise. This translation does not replace the reading of German or English original texts.

The runic inscription begins on the left edge (here part of a coherent text) continues right of the arch in Latin (language and letters), and changes back to runes on the right edge with a word in corrupt Latin (afitatores instead of < lat. habitatores, inhabitants). There is no line on the bottom edge, only two words, seeming to comment on the scenes.

Arranged according to the sections on the edges the text reads:

	her fegtaþ
	titus end giuþeasu		HC FUGANT HEUALM
	afitatores dom gisl

The words giuþeasu (instead of OE. iuþeas) and afitatores (instead of lat. habitatores) are odd, but were developed in order to achieve the proper runes in numbers and value. Why else should the rune master spell the same word once end (here), then again and (R- and H-Panel)? The same reason goes for fegtaþ instead of fehþ.
Having a closer look at the Latin part we notice some letters that are undoubtedly runes ( and ) or could be read as letters or runes (). The symbol is not part of the text though it will have a function.

The translation depends on the introductory formula:

"here fight" or: "army fights" Titus and the Jews - here flee Jerusalem'(s)// inhabitants // verdict (or: power, dignity) - hostage(s)

Let us have look at the left edge: Again it is composed of 9 runes, bringing up the total value of all three "9-rune charms" up to 330. We may suspect another magic formula: "In case of war". What is normally translated as "here fight" could also be interpreted as "army fights" (comp. Engl. 'army', Germ. 'Heer', O.E. 'here'). As the F- and R-panels bear independent 9-rune formulas on this edge we may well prefer this interpretation.

On the panels F and R, we remember, the incantation was followed by the thematic magic rune, there and , here . This spear shaped rune stands for the name (OE) Tir, Tiw (ON Tyr). It is the name of the highest god, the Germanic equivalent of Greek Zeus. Before Woden graced the scene he was the leading god of rule, warfare and justice, protector of the Germanic Thing. All these qualities can be found in this depiction: Warfare and victory (k>her fegtaþ), and a ruler (Titus) exercising justice (k>dom, gisl). Old English his very name in means 'fame, glory, honour' and 'ornament', the same as the ambiguous word dom can express. What other rune but could be more appropriate at this spot? Even the person, Titus himself, was a good choice as we can tell by the title he was given: Armor et deliciae generis humani, "Love and delight of the human race."

Here as elsewhere he was aiming at wordings, which had to produce certain numbers and values. Thus we find the "S" in its runic variation (cf. Chessel Down and St. Cuthbert's Coffin), the "R", which, anyway, is similar in shape to its runic counterpart , and four times the rune-like . Apart from that there is the letter a, which appears twice in the shape of a manuscript majuscule instead of the kind we know from the ABC. Moreover this letter helps to form a grammatically wrong verb form, (fugiant instead of fugiunt).