01 · Original text
Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained
Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.
Scholarly transliteration
[Lmn mlkn ṣ]— [rʿn Y]— [g]ʿḏ[y]— n mkrb Dʿmt w- S¹bʾ bn Rbḥ hq— nyw l-S²mn (m)qṭ— rn ywmy m— (lk)w Dʿmt S¹— bʾ-*hy* w-ʿbr-h— y ʾdm-hy w-ṣ— lm-hy ln ms²r— q-hy ʿd mʿrb- hy b-s¹qt ʿs¹t— r w-Hbs¹ w-ʾlm→qhy w-ḏt-Ḥmym w-→ḏt-Bʿdn w-ʾb-→k Wdm bn kl mrʿm|
02 · Translation
English reading
Lmn, the victorious king, he of Ygʿḏ, mukarrib of Dʿmt and Sabaʾ, son of Rbḥ, dedicated to S²mn the incense-burner, when he became the king of Dʿmt, of its Sabeans and its settlers, its Red and its Black, from its east to its west, with the protection of ʿs¹tr and Hbs¹ and ʾlmqhy and ḏt-Ḥmym and ḏt-Bʿdn and may your father Wdm (save you) from any malicious individual.
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Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.