"Are you proud of me, dad"

I wonder who inscribed it. It'd be really sweet if Phola did it.

that's especially impressive considering the lack of easy handholds

Perhaps if you challenged Bybon son of Phola to prove his claim, he could claim that "this" refers to the chisel he used to carve the message.

I really want to try to lift that over my head.

Mandelbaum, mandelbaum, mandelbaum