Aksumite eraWellcome A 103664

Aksum and the Abyssinians of Ṣanʿāʾ

A fragmentary Christian inscription mentions Aksum and Abyssinian forces at Ṣanʿāʾ; it may belong to the same text as Ist 7608 bis.

Date
6th century CE
Place
Unknown, Unknown
Language
Late Sabaic
Script
Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Late Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text

[... ...]𐩣 𐩥𐩦𐩧[... ...]
[... ...]𐩠𐩣𐩩 [... ...]
[... ...]𐩠𐩣[... ...] ±
[... ...]𐩬 𐩡-𐩺𐩤𐩧 𐩥-(𐩡)-𐩪[... ... ]
[... ...]𐩥 𐩧𐩢𐩣𐩬𐩬 𐩥-𐩨[... ...]
[... ...] 𐩹𐩬 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩬 𐩫-𐩲𐩵𐩺 𐩱𐩭-𐩠𐩣[𐩥 ... ...]
[... ... ](𐩢)𐩨𐩦𐩩 𐩨𐩬 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 𐩫-𐩳𐩨𐩱 (𐩢)[... ...]
[... ...]𐩥-𐩱𐩢𐩸𐩨 𐩠𐩴𐩧-𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩱𐩫𐩪[𐩣𐩬 ... ...]
[... ...]𐩥-𐩯𐩴𐩵 𐩡-𐩠𐩣𐩥 𐩡-𐩺𐩯𐩭𐩡𐩬 [... ...]
[... ...](𐩠)𐩥 𐩦𐩧𐩢𐩣 𐩥-𐩡𐩢𐩺𐩲𐩩 𐩹-𐩠𐩮𐩨𐩢[ ... ...]
[... ...]𐩱𐩡 𐩥-𐩦𐩧𐩢𐩱𐩡 𐩥-𐩬𐩥𐩰𐩣 𐩥-𐩨𐩧𐩡𐩣 [... ...]
[... ... 𐩦]𐩧𐩢𐩨𐩱𐩡 𐩨𐩬 𐩱𐩨𐩦𐩣𐩧 𐩹-𐩧𐩲𐩺𐩬 𐩥-𐩲𐩣𐩧𐩣 𐩥-[... ...]
[... ...]𐩺𐩬𐩬 𐩥-𐩲𐩣𐩧𐩣 𐩥-𐩨𐩬-𐩠𐩥 𐩣𐩧𐩻𐩵𐩱𐩡 𐩹𐩺 [... ...]
[... ...](𐩣) 𐩥-𐩣𐩥𐩠𐩨𐩱𐩡𐩬 𐩹𐩺-𐩣𐩥𐩳𐩲 𐩥-𐩨𐩬𐩩-𐩠[𐩣𐩥 ... ...]
[... ...]𐩵𐩠𐩥(([... ...]𐩵-𐩠𐩥)) 𐩱𐩥 𐩺𐩬𐩥𐩢𐩬-𐩠𐩥 𐩱𐩥 𐩺𐩭𐩡[... ...]
[... ... 𐩦]𐩧𐩢𐩨𐩱[𐩡] 𐩥-𐩣𐩲𐩵𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩥-𐩪𐩣𐩺𐩰𐩲 𐩱𐩡𐩠[𐩩 ... ...]
[... ...]𐩺 𐩨𐩲𐩺𐩵 [... ...](𐩺) 𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩣 𐩥𐩭𐩺 𐩤𐩺[... ...] 𐩢𐩣[... ...]

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

Scholarly transliteration

[... ...]m ws²r[... ...] [... ...]hmt [... ...] [... ...]hm[... ...] ± [... ...]n l-yqr w-(l)-s¹[... ... ] [... ...]w Rḥmnn w-b[... ...] [... ...] ḏn mlkn k-ʿdy ʾḫ-hm[w ... ...] [... ... ](Ḥ)bs²t bn Ṣnʿw k-ḍbʾ (ḥ)[... ...] [... ...]w-ʾḥzb hgr-hmw ʾks¹[mn ... ...] [... ...]w-s³gd l-hmw l-ys³ḫln [... ...] [... ...](h)w S²rḥm w-Lḥyʿt ḏ-Hṣbḥ[ ... ...] [... ...]ʾl w-S²rḥʾl w-Nwfm w-Brlm [... ...] [... ... S²]rḥbʾl bn ʾbs²mr ḏ-Rʿyn w-ʿmrm w-[... ...] [... ...]ynn w-ʿmrm w-bn-hw Mrṯdʾl ḏy [... ...] [... ...](m) w-Mwhbʾln ḏy-Mwḍʿ w-bnt-h[mw ... ...] [... ...]dhw(([... ...]d-hw)) ʾw ynwḥn-hw ʾw yḫl[... ...] [... ... S²]rḥbʾ[l] w-Mʿdkrb w-S¹myfʿ ʾlh[t ... ...] [... ...]y bʿyd [... ...](y) Mlkm wḫy qy[... ...] ḥm[... ...]

02 · Translation

English reading

1–17

[... ...] [... ...] [... ...] [... ...] [... ...] Rḥmnn and his son [... ...] [... ...] the king, when his brother marched [... ...] [... ...] Abyssinians of Ṣanʿāʾ, when he made war [... ...] [... ...] and the troops of their town Aksum [... ...] [... ...] he submitted himself to be subject to [... ...] [... ...] S²rḥm, Lḥyʿt, ḏ-Hṣbḥ [... ...] [... ...] S²rḥʾl, Nwfm, Brlm [... ...] [... ...] S²rḥbʾl, son of ʾbs²mr ḏ-Rʿyn and ʿmrm and [... ...] [... ...] and ʿmrm and his son Mrṯdʾl, those of [... ...] [... ...] and Mwhbʾln ḏy-Mwḍʿ and their sons [... ...] [... ...] destroy and damage [... ...] [... ...] S²rḥbʾl, Mʿdkrb, S¹myfʿ, those of [... ...] [... ...] Mlkm [... ...]

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. Wellcome A 103664

    Wellcome A 103664. 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.

Habesha History corpus

Greg Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam (2015), p. 163

Greg Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam (2015), p. 558