01 · Original text
Late Sabaic
Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text
Normalized Unicode reading from the cited edition; editorial brackets and uncertain readings are retained.
Scholarly transliteration
b-ḫyl w-n(ṣ)[r] w-rdʾ Rḥmnn mrʾ s¹myn w-ms¹ḥ-h(w) (h)qḥ mlk— n ʾb(r)h z-(b)- (Ym)n((Zbymn)) mlk S¹— [bʾ] w-ḏ-(Rydn) [w-Ḥ](ḍ)rmwt w- [Ymn]t w-ʾʿr— [b-h]mw Ṭwd— [m w]-(T)h<m>t ʿw— [dn b-]qdm mqḥ [S²rḥb]ʾl Yʿf— [r w-h]qḥ-hw b— n mwṯr-hw ẓw— →[r](n) ʿd(y ʾrʾs¹)- hw ʾḥd w-ʾr— bʿy ʾmm w-ṭw— lm s¹-ḏhbn w— rdm ḫms¹t w-ʾ— rbʿy ʾmm w-ʾr— bʿt ʿs²r ʾmm r— ḥbm w-hwṯr-hw b-qd(m) wrḫn ḏ- Ḥltn ḏ-l-ṯmnt w-hs²qr-hw b-ʿ— ḏr-hw mbrʾm b-grbm w-gyrm mbrʾm (ḏ)-(h)q— m w-k-kl tl— wn ms³nd-h— mw w-mqḥ-hm— →[w] b-[... ...] b-ʿrn w-qdm mʿqm[n] wrḫ- hw ḏ-Ḥltn ʾḫ(r)[n] ḏ-l-(ṯ)— mnt w-ḫ[ms¹]— y w-s¹ṯ mʾ(t)— m
02 · Translation
English reading
1–26
With the power and the help and the support of Rḥmnn, the lord of heaven and of his Anointed One, he has built the king ʾbrh, who is in Yemen, the king of Sabaʾ and ḏū-Raydān and Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt and their bedouins in the highlands and the lowlands, the ʿwdn in front of the building construction of S²rḥbʾl Yʿfr. And he built it from its foundation, (that is to say) the bedrock, up to its highest parts, forty-one cubits (high). And the length which extends in the direction of the wadi is forty-five cubits. And fourteen cubits is the width. And he carried out the work on its foundation before the month ḏ-Ḥltn in the year eight.
27–41
And he has erected it with his followers as a building construction in dressed stone and plaster, a building construction which he completed. And the whole completion of their inscription and their building work on [the dam and (?)] on the bed rock and in front of the outlet was in the month ḏ-Ḥltn the Latter in the year six hundred and fifty-eight.
DASI / CSAI, Nebes 2004 b; line breaks joined and evident spelling errors corrected. Record data: CC BY 4.0.