Markups w/ articulations

[Kamal]

I need a text markup to be placed above an articulation.

Is there a simpler way to do the above other than the following:

 < e b gis e b e, >^\markup {\hspace #0.4 \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata"}^\markup {E}

If I use:
< e b gis e b e, >^\markup {E}\fermata
or 
< e b gis e b e, >\fermata^\markup {E}

then the fermata will be above the E.