Aksumite eraGr 210

GDRT’s alliance: a fragment from Riyām

A fragmentary statue base preserves a shorter version of CIH 308, including GDRT and the alliance.

Date
Late 2nd–early 3rd century CE
Place
Jabal Riyām, Yemen
Language
Sabaic
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text

[... ...]
[... ...𐩦]𐩺𐩣-[𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩩]𐩱𐩡𐩨 𐩧𐩺𐩣𐩣 [... ...]
[... ...𐩱𐩮𐩡]𐩣𐩬 𐩹-𐩹𐩠𐩨𐩬 𐩢𐩣𐩵𐩣 𐩨-𐩹𐩩 [... ...]
[... ...] 𐩥-𐩮𐩧𐩰 𐩩𐩬𐩷𐩲𐩥 𐩥-𐩠𐩤𐩦[𐩨𐩬 ... ...]
[... ...𐩪𐩧𐩥]𐩧𐩣 𐩮𐩧𐩰𐩣 𐩥-𐩫𐩡 𐩣𐩠𐩥[𐩫𐩨-𐩠𐩣𐩥 ... ...]
[... ...𐩱𐩲]𐩣𐩵𐩬 𐩥-𐩮𐩥𐩧𐩩 𐩥-𐩱𐩧𐩰𐩵 𐩨-[𐩱𐩲𐩧𐩯𐩬... ...]
[... ...𐩮]𐩥𐩧𐩩𐩬 𐩹-𐩤𐩺𐩠𐩧𐩬 𐩹-𐩩𐩦𐩲[𐩥-𐩥... ...]
[... ...𐩥-𐩡-𐩣𐩫𐩬]𐩩𐩬 𐩻𐩣𐩬𐩩 [𐩪]𐩧𐩥𐩧𐩣 𐩥-[𐩫𐩡... ...]
[... ...]𐩥-𐩫𐩡 𐩣𐩥𐩪[𐩷] 𐩠𐩺𐩩 𐩣𐩫[𐩬𐩩𐩬... ...]
[... ...] 𐩨-𐩲𐩨𐩧-𐩠𐩥 𐩴𐩵𐩧𐩩 𐩣𐩡𐩫 𐩢[𐩨𐩦𐩩𐩬... ...]
[... ...] 𐩱𐩭𐩥𐩬𐩬 𐩨𐩺𐩬-𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩥-𐩨𐩺𐩬 𐩴𐩵[𐩧𐩩... ...]
[... ...𐩨-𐩲]𐩡𐩺-𐩫𐩡 𐩹-𐩺𐩬𐩩𐩦𐩱𐩬 [... ...]

Normalized Unicode reading from the cited edition; editorial brackets and uncertain readings are retained.

Scholarly transliteration

[... ...] [... ...s²]ym-[hmw T]ʾlb Rymm [... ...] [... ...ʾṣl]mn ḏ-ḏhbn ḥmdm b-ḏt [... ...] [... ...] w-ṣrf tnṭʿw w-hqs²[bn ... ...] [... ...s¹rw]rm ṣrfm w-kl mhw[kb-hmw ... ...] [... ...ʾʿ]mdn w-ṣwrt w-ʾrfd b-[ʾʿrs³n... ...] [... ...ṣ]wrtn ḏ-Qyhrn ḏ-ts²ʿ[w-w... ...] [... ...w-l-mkn]tn ṯmnt [s¹]rwrm w-[kl... ...] [... ...]w-kl mws¹[ṭ] hyt mk[ntn... ...] [... ...] b-ʿbr-hw Gdrt mlk Ḥ[bs²tn... ...] [... ...] ʾḫwnn byn-hmw w-byn Gd[rt... ...] [... ...b-ʿ]ly-kl ḏ-ynts²ʾn [... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

10–11 · excerpt

[…] GDRT, king of Ḥ[abašat …] […] alliance between them and GD[RT …]

Habesha History, literal rendering of the surviving words in lines 10–11 of DASI’s edition; compare CIH 308.

Excerpt only. The full surviving Sabaic text appears above; a checked English translation of the remaining damaged lines has not been located.

Sources

Editions & references

Follow the record back to the edition, catalogue, or image source used here.

  1. Gr 210

    Gr 210. DASI / Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions; full text, translation, object record, and bibliography.

  2. Aksum and South Arabia

    George Hatke, “Aksum [and South Arabia]”, Ancient Arabia: archaeology & history of pre-islamic Arabia. Source inventory and historical context.