01 · Original text
Sabaic
Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text
Normalized Unicode reading from the cited edition; editorial brackets and uncertain readings are retained.
Scholarly transliteration
[... ...] [... ...]r (s²)ʿbn Ḥs²dm b-hgrn [..]ḍ b-(s²)[ʿ]— [bn ] (Ḥ)myrm w-tqdm mʾtn ʾs¹dm w-hġrw ʿ— [d]y ʾrḍ Ḥmyrm w-hrg b-hw ʾs¹m w-b-ḏ[t] [t](qd)m ḫms¹y w-mʾt ʾs¹dm ʿd[y] Mrd[m] [b-ʾ](rḍ )(ʾ)lhn w-ʾḫḏ b-hw ṯny ʾ(s¹n) w-[b]- [ḏt t]qdmw ḫms¹n b-ḫlf Dlg w-(hrg) b-(hw) [ʾ]— [s¹]m w-b-ḏt tqdmw b-ʿm Ḥbs²t b-ḫ(lf) [..]— [.] (w)-(hr)g b-hw (ʾ)s¹m w-b-ḏt tqdm (s²r)[ḥt.] [.. ʿ]rbn [ʿs²r](m) w-mʾt ʾs¹dm w-(t)[q]dmw (b)-[ʿm] Br(qn) w-h(r)g b-hw ʾ(s¹)m w-b-ḏt h(nḥ)l-[hw ʾm]— rʾ-hw b[nw] Hmdn ʾfr(s¹)-hm(w) [... ...-h]— mw f-hrg (ṯ)[n]y nmrn w-kl ḏ-[..](h b)-(ḏn m)[.]— kḥn (ḏ)-(b)-hw hṯqf (ʾ)b(kr)b Y(h)s¹(kr) (ḍ)rʿ— [n] ḏ-Ḫṭlm w-b-ḏt ḫmr-hw T(ʾ)lb hw(l)d— [n ʿ]s¹m (ġ)lmm ʾḏ(kr)m w-l-wzʾ ḫmr-h(mw) [T]— [ʾl]b ḥẓy w-rḍw ʾmrʾ-hmw bny Hmdn | [w-s²ʿ]b-hmw Ḥs²dm w-(ʾṯ)mr ṣdqm ʿdy ms²[y]— [mt-hm]w w-ʾrḍ-hmw w-l-hʿn-hmw (T)ʾlb bn nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm b-Tʾlb-R(y)[m](m) (bʿ)— l Rḥbn
02 · Translation
English translation
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[... ...] ... the tribe Ḥšdm in the city [..]ḍ in (the territory of) the tribe Ḥimyar and he led 200 men and they made a raid into the land of Ḥimyar, where he killed one man; and because he led 150 men into Mrdm in the land of ʾlhn, where he captured two men and because they made an expedition, fifty men in the region of Dlg, where he killed one man and because they made an expedition against the Ḥbs²t in the region of [... ...], where he killed one man and because he led and auxiliary column of Arabs, 110 men, and they made an expedition against Brqn, where he killed one man, and because his lords of the banu Hmdn hired out to him their horses [... ...] so he killed two chieftains and all [... ...] the one on which ʾbkrb Yhs¹kr declared the defeat of ḏ-Ḫṭlm; and because Tʾlb granted him to beget many male children; and may Tʾlb continue to grant him the favour and the satisfaction of their lords the banu Hmdn and their tribe Ḥs²dm, and good crops in their fields and their land; and may Tʾlb save them from the harm and the malice of the enemies; by Tʾlb Rymm Lord of Rḥbn.
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