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
[Krbʿṯt Ydfṯ w-S¹ʿdʿṯt]r Ys¹kr bny Grt w- [ḏ-Zbnr w-Tzʾ]d ʾqwl s²ʿbn Ḏmry ʾrbʿw S¹mh— [rm hqnyw ʾ]lmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm ṯny ṣlmn ḏ-ḏhbn ḥ— [mdm ]b-ḏt tʾwly w-s¹twfyn mrʾy-hmw ʾls²rḥ Y— ḥḍb w-ʾḫy-hw Yʾzl Byn mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn bny Fr— ʿm Ynhb mlk S¹bʾ w-ḫms¹-hmy w-ʾfrs¹-hmy bn s¹b— ʾt s¹bʾy w-ḍbʾ b-ʿly Ḥbs²t w-ʿkm w-ḏ-S¹hrtm w-kl ḏ-kwn kwn-hmw b-S¹hrtn w-tʾwl bn hnt s¹bʾ— tn w-ḍbʾtn b-wfym w-mhrgtm w-ʾḥllm w-s¹bym w-ġ— nmm w-mltm ḏ-ʿs¹m ḏ-hrḍw w-hḫḍfn mrʾy-hmw ʾls²— rḥ Yḥḍb w-ʾḫy-hw Yʾzl Byn mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-ḥm— dm b-ḏt tʾwl w-s¹twfyn ʿbd-hmw Krbʿṯt bn Grt b— n hnt s¹bʾtn w-ḍbʾtn ḏ-s¹bʾw w-s²wʿn mrʾy-hmw ʾls²r— ḥ Yḥḍb w-ʾḫy-hw Yʾzl Byn mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn b-wfym w-m— hrgtm w-s¹bym w-ġnmm ḏ-hrḍw-hmw w-l-wzʾ ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-b— ʿl-ʾwm wḍʿ w-ḍrʿ w-hms¹ w-hkms¹ kl ḍr w-s²nʾ mrʾy-h— mw ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb w-ʾḫy-hw Yʾzl Byn mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-ḥmdm b-ḏt hwfy ʾlmqhw-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm ʿbdy-hw K— rbʿṯt w-S¹ʿdʿṯtr bny Grt b-kl hwkl w-ʾmlʾ w-ṣ— ry w-tbs²r s¹twklw w-s¹tmlʾn b-ʿm ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-b— ʿl-ʾwm b-kl ḫrft w-ʾbrq b-qdmy ḏt hqnytn w-ḥ— mdm b-ḏt ḫmr w-hws²ʿn ʿbdy-hw Krbʿṯt w-S¹ʿdʿṯt— r bny Grt b-nkl w-mqḥ hklw w-hwṯrw w-hṯbn w-hs²qrn b-byt-hmw b-byt Grt b-hgrn Nʿḍ w-l-w— zʾ ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm ḫmr ʿbdy-hw Krbʿṯt w-S¹ʿdʿṯtr bny Grt ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾy-hmw ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb w-ʾḫy-hw Yʾzl Byn mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-l s¹ʿd-hmw bry ʾʾḏnm w-mqymtm w-ʾwldm ʾ— ḏkrm hnʾm w-nʾd dṯʾ w-ḫrf w-s¹ʿs¹ʿm w-mly— m w-ʾbrq w-ʾḏnm w-ḫryft w-ʾṯmr ṣdqm hnʾm mhs²fqm ʿdy kl ʾrḍ-hmw ḏ-tfrw w-ytfrnn bn— w Grt b-ms²rqm w-ʿltm w-l-ḫryn-hmw ʾlmqh-Ṯh— wn-bʿl-ʾwm bn nḍʿ w-s²ṣy w-ġbṭ w-tṯʿt s²nʾm w-m— hbʾs¹m ḏ-bn-hw dʿw w-ḏ-bn-hw ʾl dʿw b-ʾlmqh-Ṯhw— n-bʿl-ʾwm w-b-mrʾy-hmw ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb w-ʾḫy-hw Yʾ— zl Byn mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn
02 · Translation
English reading
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Krbʿṯt Ydfṯ and S¹ʿdʿṯtr Ys¹kr, of the families Grt and ḏ-Zbnr w-Tzʾd, ʾqwl of the tribe Ḏmry, quarters of S¹mhrm, dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, two statues in bronze, in praise because they came back and were safe their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, sons of Frʿm Ynhb, king of Sabaʾ, with their army and their cavalry from the expeditions they made and fought against the Ḥbs²t and ʿkm and ḏ-S¹hrtm and all their supporters in S¹hrtn, and they returned from those expeditions and fightings in safety and with enemy casualties and spoils and prisoners and booty and loot in quantity, which satisfied and gratified their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān; in praise because His servant Krbʿṯt, of the family Grt, came back and was safe from those expeditions and fightings that they made and (during which) they accompanied their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, in safety and with enemy casualties and prisoners and booty of which satisfied them; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, continue to destroy and humiliate and overwhelm and crush every enemy and ill-wisher of their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān;
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in praise because ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, saved His servants Krbʿṯt and S¹ʿdʿṯtr, of the family Grt, in all the favours and requests and favourable oracles and good announcements that they had sought and requested from ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, in all the autumns and rainy seasons before this dedication; in praise because He granted and bestowed favours to His servants Krbʿṯt and S¹ʿdʿṯtr, of the family Grt, in the works and the completion they did and built and completed and finished off in their house, in the house of Grt in the town of Nʿḍ; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, continue to grant their servants Krbʿṯt and S¹ʿdʿṯtr, of the family Grt, the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and may He grant them soundness of faculties and material resources and healthy male children and abundance of spring and autumn and summer and winter and thunderstorms and rains and autumn harvests and good healthy crops in abundance in all their land that the family Grt have cultivated and will cultivate in the East and in the highland; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, deliver them from the malice and the maleficence and the envy and the slander of any enemy and evildoer, the one they are aware of and the one they are not aware of. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn,
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Lord of ʾwm, and by their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān.
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