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
ʾls²r(ḥ) Yḥḍb [w-](ʾḫy)-(h)[w Yʾzl Byn mlky S¹bʾ w-](ḏ)-(Ryd)n bny Frʿm Y— nhb mlk S¹bʾ hqnyy ʾlmq(h)-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm (ṣlm)ynn ḏ-ṣrfn ḥmdm b- (ḏ)t ḫmr w-hws²ʿn ʿbd-hw ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn b-nqm ʾḥbs²n w-ḏ-S¹— hrtm b-ḥrbt ḥrbw b-qr-hmw b-s¹rn ḏ-S¹hm w-bʿd-hw f-yḍbʾ ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb m— lk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-b-ʿm-hw ḏ-bn ḫms¹-hw w-ʾqwl-hw b-ʿly ʾḥzb Ḥbs²t w-ʾʿṣd-hm— w ʿdy ʾgnw s¹rn S³rdd w-yḥrbw hmt ʾḥbs²n w-ḏ-S¹hrtm b-kdnn ḏ-Wdftn w-Wdyfn w-frs²t Lqḥ w-ḥrbw b-hmyt ʾkdnn ḫms¹t w-ʿs²ry ʾdwrm bn ʾdwr ʾks¹mn w-Gmdn w-ʿ— km w-ḏ-bn ʾdwr ḏ-S¹hrtm w-ḥmdm b-ḏt tʾwlw hmw w-ʾqwl-hmw w-ḫms¹-hmw w-ʾ— frs¹-hmw b-wfym w-ḥmdm w-ʾḥllm w-s¹bym w-mltm w-ġnmm ḏ-ʿs¹m ḏ-hrḍw-h— mw w-bʿd ḏ-tʾwlw ʿdy hgrn Ṣnʿw f-hdrk-hmw tnbltm ʿmn Gmdn tḍ— rʿm w-ʿrbtm w-whbw ʾwld-hmw ʾwṯqm w-kwnw l-mlk S¹bʾ w-hgrn Lq— ḥ f-whbw ʾwṯqm w-mqbl-hmw w-l-wzʾ ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm hws²ʿn-hmw b-wḍ— ʿ w-ṯbr w-hms¹ w-hkms¹ kl ḍr-hmw w-s²nʾ-hmw b-ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm
02 · Translation
English translation
1–9
ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yzʾl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, sons of Frʿm Ynhb, king of Sabaʾ, dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, the two statues in silver, in praise because He granted and vouchsafed to His servant ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, to take reprisals on the Abyssinians and the people of S¹hrtm, for the hostile actions they had committed in their villages in the valley of S¹hm. Thereupon ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, declared war, and together with him part of his army and his ʾqwl, against the troops of the Abyssinians and their concentrations in the cultivated parts of the valley S³rdd, and then they came into conflict with those Abyssinians and the people of S¹hrtm at the two humps of Wdftn and Wdyfn, and the cultivated countryside of Lqḥ, and they came into conflict at those two humps with 25 patrols (comprising) Aksumites and Gmdn and ʿkm together with some patrols of the people of S¹hrtm; and in praise because they returned those and their ʾqwl and their army and their cavalry in safety, and with glory, with prisoners and captives and loot and booty in great quantity, which satisfied them.
10–13
And after they returned in the city of Ṣanʿāʾ, a delegation from Gmdn approached them in humiliation and with guarantees, and they offered their children as hostages, and (these) were (assigned) to the king of Sabaʾ; and as for the city of Lqḥ, they offered hostages and the equivalent of them (what Gmdn had offered); and may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, continue to grant them favours in the humiliation and crushing and overwhelming and humiliation of all their war enemies and personal enemies. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm.
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