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
[... ... w-mn]fs¹ qds¹ S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ mlk S¹[bʾ ... ...] [... ... ʾ]ḥṣn w-S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ bny S²rḥbʾ[l ... ...] [... ... ʾm]rʾ-hmw ngs²t ʾks¹mn brʾw w-hwṯ[rn ... ...] [... ... ʾ]ḫms¹-hmw mlykym w-qylym ḏ-tqh ḏ-[... ...] [... ...]ʿ ḏn mlkn b-ḫylm w-b-gys²-hmw ʿmn ml[kn ... ...] [... ...]m s¹-mlkn ʾlʾ<ṣ>bḥh mlk Ḥbs²t l[... ...] [... ... ]ʾmlkm l-Ḥmyrm w-ʿqbtm l-ngs²t ʾ[ks¹mn ... ...] [... ... ]ytʿbdnn l-ʾmlk ʾks¹mn w-k-s¹th[... ...] [... ...]tḫl-hmw l-zʿ bḥrn w-l-ṣlḥ Ḥ[myrm ... ...] [... ... ḏ]-Yzʾn w-Ḥs³n w-S²rḥbʾl ḏy Mʿf[rn ... ...] [... ...]ln-hw ʾs¹wdn w-S¹myfʿ ḏ-ʿbdn w[... ...] [... ... ḏ]y Ḫll w-Zrʿt ḏ-Mrḥbm w-Mlkm Ns¹[... ...] [... ...]rm w-Ḥrṯm w-Mrṯdm ʾlht Ṯʿlbn w-M[... ...] [... ... ʾlʾṣbḥ]h ngs²y ʾks¹mn w-k-hrṯdw w-s²rḥ[n ... ...] [... ...]w hgn ʾb-hmw S²rḥbʾl Ykml w-h[... ...] [... ...]s¹m Rḥmnn w-bn-hw krs³ts³ ġlbn [... ...]
02 · Translation
English reading
1–16
[... ...] Holy Spirit. S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ, king of Sabaʾ [... ...] [... ...] ʾḥṣn and S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ, sons of S²rḥbʾl [... ..] [... ...] their lords, the negus of Axum built and laid the foundation [... ...] [... ...] their royal force and those of the qayls, who concluded [... ...] [... ...] this king with strength and with their army together with the king [... ...] [... ...] toward ʾlʾṣbḥh, king of Abyssinia in [... ...] [... ...] kings for Ḥimyar and governors of the negus of Axum [... ...] [... ...] submitted themselves to the kings of Axoum and when [... ...] [... ...] he appointed them for the defense of the sea and the maintenance of order in Ḥimyar [... ...] [... ...] ḏ-Yzʾn, Ḥs³n and S²rḥbʾl those two of the family Mʿfrn [... ...] [... ...] ʾs¹wdn and S¹myfʿ ḏ-ʿbdn [... ...] [... ...] two sons of Ḫll and Zrʿt ḏ-Mrḥbm and Mlkm Ns¹[... ...] [... ...] and Ḥrṯm and Mrṯdm ʾlht Ṯʿlbn and M[... ...] [... ...] ʾlʾṣbḥh negus of Axum and when they entrusted and preserved [... ...] [... ...] the bastard of their father S²rḥbʾl Ykml and [... ...] [... ...] in name of Rḥmnn and his son Christ, the victorious [... ...]
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