01 · Original text
Late Sabaic
Ancient South ArabianComplete surviving text
Normalized Unicode reading from the cited edition; editorial brackets and uncertain readings are retained.
Scholarly transliteration
ʾbkrb ʾs¹ʿd w-bnw-hw Ḥs³n Yhʾmn mlky S¹bʾ | w-ḏ-Rydn w-Ḥḍrmwt w-Ymnt w-ʾʿrb Ṭwd w-Thmt bny Ḥs³n Mlkkrb Yhʾmn mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ- Rydn w-Ḥḍrmwt w-Ymnt rqdw ḏn mrqdn b-wd— [yn] Mʾs¹l Gmḥn k-s¹bʾw w-ḥllw ʾrḍ Mʿdm b-mw nzlm bn ʾs²ʿb-hmw w-b-s²ʿb-h— (m)w Ḥḍrmwt w-S¹bʾ [w-]Bny Mrb w-ʾṣ(ġ)rt ʾqwl-hmw w-(hg)lm [bn] mqtwt-hmw w-ʾt— ly-hmw w-ṣyd-hmw w-qbḍ-hmw w-b-ʾʿrb-h— mw Kdt w-S¹ʿd w-ʿlh w-H[... ...]
02 · Translation
English translation
1–10
ʾbkrb ʾs¹ʿd and his son Ḥs³n Yhʾmn, the two kings of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt, Yamanat and the arabs of Ṭwdm and Thmt, sons of Ḥs³n Mlkkrb Yhʾmnn, king of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt, Yamanat wrote this inscription in the wadi Mʾs¹l Gmḥn, when they undertook an expedition and took possession of the land of Mʿdm, going down with their tribes and with their tribes of Ḥaḍramawt and Sabaʾ and banū Mārib, those who are subject to the authority of their ʾqwl, going down to the lowland with their lieutenants and their ʾtly, their hunters, their leaders, their Arabs of Kinda, S¹wd, Wlh [... ...]
DASI / CSAI, CSAI; line breaks joined and evident spelling errors corrected. Record data: CC BY 4.0.