01 · Original text
Sabaic
Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text
Normalized Unicode reading from the cited edition; editorial brackets and uncertain readings are retained.
Scholarly transliteration
Wfym ʾḏrḥ bn [... ...] hqny ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm ṣlmn w-ṯwrn ḏ-ḏhbn ywm hwṣt-hw mrʾ-hw S²ʿrm ʾwtr mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn l-s²rḥ w-qrn b-ʾwṯn s²ʿbn Ḥs²dm b-ḍr ḍrrw ʾḥbs²n w-ḏ-kwn kwn-hmw bn S¹whrn w-Ḫwln w-s¹twfy kl ʾwṯn hgr w-ʾhl Ḥs²dm w-ḏ-kwn b-ʿm-hmw bn ḏ-ʾbnw ʾʿrbn b-kl ḫryft gzy l-tnṣf w-qrn ʿbrn ʾwṯn Ḥs²dm ʿdy ḏt s¹lmw ʾḥbs²n nḥql-mw drm ḏ-ʿdww w-bʿww ʾḥbs²n b-ḫms¹ mʾnm w-ṯny ʾlfn ʾs¹dm w-bʿww ḏ-bn ʾʿrbn b-s¹rn ḏ-Wʿrm b-mʿrb Ḥs²dm w-hʿn b-ʿly-hmw Wfym ʾḏrḥ w-b-ʿm-hw s¹bʿy w-mʾn ʾs¹dm bn ʿrbn w-ydrk-hmw b-llyn ṯntn b-mʿqrn((Mʿqrn)) ḏ-s²rḥtn((S²rḥtn)) w-bʿww ws¹ṭ ḥyrt-hmw b-llyn w-hrgw w-hs¹ḥtn-hmw bn ḥyrt-hmw w-hqḏw ʿmn-hmw ḫms¹ mʾnm s¹bym w-ʿs¹m s²rʿ w-ʾlbs¹ tmlyw w-ywm hwṣt-hw mrʾ-hw S²ʿrm ʾwtr mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-ʾḫy-hw Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ bny ʿlhn Nhfn mlk S¹bʾ l-s¹bʾ w-qtdmn mns³rtm bn ḫms¹n s¹ṯ mʾtm ʾs¹dm l-ḥrb ʾzd gys²m w-ḥrbm bn ʿlyn ʾḫwln w-yḥrbw ʾzd-hmw b-ngd mḥrbn((Mḥrbn)) b-ḥyrn ḏ-S¹hrtn w-ḫmr ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl-ʾwm ʿbd-hw Wfym ʾḏrḥ w-ʾs¹d b-ʿm-hw tʾwln b-brytm w-mhrgm w-ġnmm w-mltm ḏ-ʿs¹m w-kwn mhrg-hmw ʿs²rm w-ṯty mʾtn bḍʿm w-ṯlṯy w-mʾt s¹bym w-ʾrbʿ mʾn ʾwldm w-ʾnṯm ḏ-hrgw w-ṯlṯy mʾn ʾʾblm w-ṯlṯ mʾn w-ʾḥd ʾlfm bqrm w-s¹bʿy w-ṯty mʾtn ʾḥmrm w-ʿs²rt ʾʾlfm qṭntm w-l-wzʾ ʾlmqh Ṯhwn ḫmr-hw ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾy-hmw S²ʿrm ʾwtr mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-ʾḫy-hw Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ bny ʿlhn Nhfn mlk S¹bʾ w-l-wzʾ ʾlmqh bʿl-ʾwm ḫmr ʿbd-hw Wfym ʾḥllm w-mltm ʾhn-mw ʾbrṯ ys²wʿnn mrʾy-hmw S²ʿrm ʾwtr mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-ʾḫy-hw Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ w-ʾbrṯ yhys¹rn-hmw l-qtdmn w-s²rḥ b-qrbm w-rḥqm w-l-ḫmr-hw ʾlmqh bry ʾʾḏnm w-mqymtm w-l-ḫryn-hmw ʾlmqh bʿl-ʾwm bn nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm ḏ-rḥq w-qrb b-ʾlmqh bʿl-ʾwm w-b-mrʾy-hmw S²ʿrm ʾwtr mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-ʾḫy-hw Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ bny ʿlhn Nhfn mlk S¹bʾ
02 · Translation
English reading
1–3
Wfym ʾḏrḥ, son of [… …] dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, the statue and the bull in bronze when his lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, appointed him to protect and perform garrison duty on the borders of the tribe Ḥs²dm in the war that the Abyssinians and their supporters from S¹whrn and Ḫwln waged, and he protected all the borders of the town and of the population of the tribe Ḥs²dm and those that were with them among the descendants of the bedouins in all the years in which he received commendation for the service and the garrison duty he performed on the borders of the Ḥs²dm, until the Abyssinians made peace, except for the time that the Abyssinians advanced and made an assault with two thousand and five hundred men and some bedouins too made an assault in the valley ḏ-Wʿrm in the west of Ḥs²dm; Wfym ʾḏrḥ mounted an offensive against them - and with him there were one hundred and seventy men among the bedouins - and he pursued them on the second night in pursuit (?) of the protection force (?) and they did an assault in the middle of their camp during the night and they killed and took them from their camp and they seized among them five hundred prisoners and abundant equipment and garments that they appropriated,
4–6
and when his lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and his brother Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ, sons of ʿlhn Nhfn king of Sabaʾ, appointed him to go on an expedition and lead a vanguard detachment from the army of six hundred men to wage war on the troops of a detachment and of a … (?) (sent) from those of Ḫwln, and they waged war on their troops on the pass of Mḥrbn (?) in the camp of ḏ-S¹hrtn, and ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, granted to His servant Wfym ʾḏrḥ and to the men who are with him the return in soundness and with spoils and loot and booty in abundance, and their killings were two hundred and ten wounded warriors, and one hundred and thirty prisoners, and four hundred children and women that they killed, and three hundred camels, and one thousand and three hundred bovines, and two hundred and seventy asses, and ten thousand small cattle.
7–9
May ʾlmqh Ṯhwn continue to grant him the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lords S²ʿrm ʾwtr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and his brother Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ, sons of ʿlhn Nhfn, king of Sabaʾ, and may ʾlmqh Lord of ʾwm continue to grant his servant Wfym spoils and booty in whatever occasion they will perform service for their lords S²ʿrm ʾwtr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and his brother Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ, and (whatever) occasion he will dispatch them to lead protection near and far; may ʾlmqh grant them soundness of faculties and material resources and may ʾlmqh Lord of ʾwm deliver them from the malice and the maleficence of any enemy, far and near, by ʾlmqh Lord of ʾwm and by their lords S²ʿrm ʾwtr king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and his brother Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ sons of ʿlhn Nhfn king of Sabaʾ.
DASI / CSAI, CSAI; line breaks joined and evident spelling errors corrected. Record data: CC BY 4.0.
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