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
Rdʾm mlk←n (ṣ)rʿn S¹←[ryt ]mkr(b) D— ʿmt b[n bn S¹]→(l)mm [Fṭr]→[n] w-Ṣrʿt ʿ— rktn hḥ[d]←(s¹)w mqṭ←[rtn l-R]b b— ʿl (ʾ)w[.ḥ]→ ywm mlk→w Dʿmt m— s²rq-hy w-m←ʿrb-hy ←[S¹bʾ]-hy w-ʿ— br-hy [ʾdm→-h]y w-ṣlm→-(h)y b-s¹qt| ʿs¹tr w-Hb←s¹ w-ʾlmq←[y w-]ḏt-Ḥmn w-ḏt-Bʿ[dn ]→w-ʾb-k Wd→[m] bn ʿ(t)km|
02 · Translation
English translation
Rdʾm, victorious king of S¹ryt and mukarrib of DʿMT, descendant of S¹lmm Fṭrn and Ṣrʿt the wife, restored two incense burners for Rb, Lord of ʾw[.]ḥ, when he became king of DʿMT—its east and west, its Sabaeans and settlers, its Red and Black—under the protection of ʿs¹tr, Hbs¹, ʾlmqy, ḏt-Ḥmn and ḏt-Bʿdn; may your father Wdm save you from any opponent (?).
DASI CSAI English translation, joined and lightly punctuated; data CC BY 4.0
Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.
