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-ḥmd Rḥmnn bʿl s¹myn w-b- [... ]mrʾ-hmw mlkn Mrṯdʾln Ynwf | S²gʿ w-bny-hw Wdfh w-ʾṣbḥh tn— bltn brʾw w-hqs²bn w-ṯwbn byt-hmw S²bʿn bn mwṯr-hw ʿd— y tfrʿ-hw w-qs²bw b-hw mbhʾtm b-m— nhmtm w-mwglm b-zkt Rḥmnn wrḫ-h— w ḏ-Mʿn ḏ-l-ts¹ʿt ʿs²r w-s¹ṯ mʾtm |
02 · Translation
English reading
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[... ...] for the glory of Rḥmnn, the Master of the heaven and with [... ...] their lord the king Mrṯdʾln Ynf. S²gʿ and his sons Wdfh and ʾṣbḥh, ambassadors, built, completed and repaired their house S²bʿn from its foundation to its top; they built in it an entrance in smooth stones and in alabaster. By the grace of Rḥmnn. The month of Mʿn, the year six hundred nineteen.
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