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
Wʿrn mlkn ṣrʿn bn Rdʾm w-S²ḫtm ʿr(k)←[yt](n) hḥds¹ l-ʾlm↯qh ywm tbʿl byt ʾlm↯qh b-Yḥʾ ←b-nḫy ʿṯtr w-ʾlmqh w-ḏt-Ḥmym w-ḏt-Bʿ←dn|
02 · Translation
English translation
Waʿrān, the victorious king, son of Rdʾm and S²ḫtm his female companion, rebuilt the altar for Almaqah when he took charge of Almaqah's temple at Yeha, acting under the guidance of ʿAthtar, Almaqah, Dhāt Ḥamīn and Dhāt Baʿdān.
English rendering after Wolf, Nowotnick and Büchner, The Almaqah Temple of Wukro in Tigrai/Ethiopia (2015), p. 24.
Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.
Compare another published translation
Wʿrn, the victorious king, son of Rdʾm and S²ḫtm the wife, restored the altar for ʾlmqh when he became chief of the temple of ʾlmqh at Yeha, with the guidance of ʿṯtr, ʾlmqh, ḏt-Ḥmym and ḏt-Bʿdn.
DASI CSAI English translation, joined across its single inscribed line; data CC BY 4.0