| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Writing technique | Incision |
| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
| Halévy's copy, with a correction suggested by Bron 2010 a (l.8). |
| 1 | b-[ms²ymt-hmw (CIH). |
| 2 | hyhrḍyn s²ʿb-hm{|}w (Halevy's copy). |
| 4 | w-rḍw s²ʿb-hmw (Halevy's copy). |
| 7-8 | [ʿbd-h]w (CIH). Halévy read this names in l.8: ʾl(r)m w-Wd(d)m w-(Y)s²b[m] bny (ʿ)zz[m], but their reading has been corrected by Bron on the basis of FB-al-Bayḍāʾ 1, 1-2. |
| 9 | w-ḥ[rym (CIH). |
| 10 | w-[qḥl s²nʾm (CIH). |
| English | |
1 [... ...] good 2 crops in [... ...] 3 which may satisfy them [... ...] 4 and material resources and healthy children [... ...] 5 the satisfaction of their tribe ʾs²qn and the maleficence of the enemy; and 6 may ʾlmqh, Master of S²bʿn, continue to protect them in all the enterprises 7 and expeditions (?) they were ordered by their lord the king of Sabaʾ, 8 and may ʾlmqh, Master of S²bʿn, help [his servant] 9 ʾlrm and Wdʾb and Yrb, banū ʿzzʿl 10 against the harm, the mischief and [... ...] 11 and against the maleficence, malice and [... ...]. |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
| Modern site | al-Bayḍāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²qm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl S²bʿn |
| Link to site record |
| Bron 2010 a | Bron, François 2010. Nouvelles inscriptions sudarabiques. Semitica et Classica, 3: 163-175. |