Aksumite eraGr 27

Rebuilding after a fire

A building dedication records reconstruction after a fire attributed to Abyssinian forces.

Date
Late 3rd–early 4th century CE
Place
Bayt al-Ashwāl, Ẓafār, Yemen, Yemen
Language
Late Sabaic
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Late Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text

𐩠𐩥𐩰𐩲𐩻𐩩 𐩺𐩠𐩺𐩲 𐩥-𐩨𐩬𐩺-𐩠𐩥 𐩦𐩧𐩢𐩨𐩱𐩡 𐩥-𐩵𐩥𐩣[𐩬 ... ...]
𐩨𐩲𐩵-𐩬 𐩹𐩩 𐩵𐩠𐩧-𐩠𐩥 𐩱𐩢𐩨𐩦𐩬 𐩥-𐩨𐩧𐩱-𐩠𐩥 𐩥-𐩠𐩥[𐩻𐩧𐩬 ... ...]
𐩨(𐩬)𐩥𐩩𐩣 𐩩-𐩪𐩻𐩩 𐩨𐩢𐩥𐩧𐩣 𐩥-𐩨𐩺𐩩-𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩬𐩪𐩧 [... ...]
[... ...] 𐩲𐩻𐩩𐩧 𐩦𐩧𐩤𐩬 𐩥-𐩨-𐩧𐩵𐩱 𐩱𐩡𐩺-𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩥𐩡𐩡 𐩥-𐩪[𐩣𐩺𐩵𐩲 ... ...]

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

Scholarly transliteration

Hwfʿṯt Yhyʿ w-bny-hw S²rḥbʾl w-Dwm[n ... ...] bʿd-n ḏt dhr-hw ʾḥbs²n w-brʾ-hw w-hw[ṯrn ... ...] b(n)wtm t-s¹ṯt bḥwrm w-byt-hmw Ns¹r [... ...] [... ...] ʿṯtr S²rqn w-b-rdʾ ʾly-hmw Wll w-S¹[mydʿ ... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

1–4

Hwfʿṯt Yhyṯʿ and his sons S²rḥbʾl and Dwmn [... ...] after the Abyssinians had burnt it; they built and laid the foundations [... ...] a six-storey building and their house Ns¹r [... ...] ʿṯtr S²rqn and with the help of their two gods Wgl et S¹mydʿ [... ...]

DASI / CSAI, CSAI; line breaks joined and evident spelling errors corrected. Record data: CC BY 4.0.

Sources

Editions & references

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

  1. Gr 27

    Gr 27. 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.