01 · Original text
Sabaic
Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text
Normalized Unicode reading. At line 10, DASI prints an unqualified s in ʾs²ms-hmw; its native-script equivalent is left [?] here rather than guessed. The transliteration preserves the source reading.
Scholarly transliteration
ʾls²rḥ ʾṣdq w-bny-hw ʾls²r w-ʾ(l)ʿ[... ...] Nhym w-ḏ-Ydm brʾw w-ṯwb w-hqs²b w-s¹tqḥw [...] ḫlf w-gnʾ w-ṣwbt hgr-hmw Ṣyrtn w-mḥfdn Yf[ʿn] w-bytnynhn Nʿmn w-S²bʿn f-ṯwbw bn mwṯrn ʿdy mrymn w-mḥfdtn Rdʿm w-Rznm w-Yʿrm w-Mḥfdm ((mḥfdm)) s¹wn ḫf— (r)tn w-mḥfdn Yhwnʿ f-hqs²bw bqyrtm ((b-qyrtm)) bn hwṯrn ʿdy mrymn w-mqbr— (tn) Mḥwrn f-ṯwbw w-mwrmm ((Wmwrmm)) w-b-ʿly-hw rfqm f-ṯwbw w-rḥb w-gyrn w-l[...] [... ...](b)[.]lʾn b-ms¹qy hgr-hmw f-ṯwbw w-gyrn bʿd-n-ḏt dhrw w-ḥf[...] [hgr-hmw Ṣ](y)rtn ḫms¹ ʾḥbs²n b-ywm kwn ḍrm l-ḫms¹ Ḥm[yrm] [...] [... ...] b-rdʾ w-mqm ʿṯtr S²rqn w-ʾs²ms-hmw [... ...] (ʾl)-hmw S²yʾn w-Ḥbr w-b-s¹ʿd w-mqm ʾm— [... ...] [... ...]s¹l[.] w-ws²ʿn ʾdm-hmw ʿs²r-hmw [... ...] [ḫr]yfn ḏ-l-ṯmnt w-ts¹ʿy [... ...]-hmw wn[... ...]
02 · Translation
English translation
1–14
ʾls²rḥ ʾṣdq and his sons ʾls²r and ʾlʿ[......] Nhym and of the family Ydm built, repaired, constructed, and completed [...] the gate, the walls, the construction associated with the walls of their city Ṣyrtn, the tower Yfʿn, the two houses Nʿmn and S²bʿn, then they repaired from the foundations to the roof, and the towers Rdʿm, Rznm, Yʿrm and Mḥfdm (or: and a tower) towards the protection and the tower Yhwnʿ; they constructed a levelled field (or: with tar (?) from the founding to the roof and the burial place Mḥwrn, then they repaired Wmwrmm (?) and on it a rfq (?); then they repaired and plastered [...] [... ...] in the irrigated land of their city; then they repaired and plastered after that the Abyssinian army burned and [...] their city Ṣyrtn, when there was a war to the army of Ḥmyrm [...] [... ...] with the help and the power of ʿṯtr S²rqn and their solar deities [...] [... ...] their god S²yʾn and Ḥbr and with the beneficence and the power of [...] [... ...] and the directive of their people, their group [... ...] [... ...] the year 98 (or: 198) [... ...]
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