Since Abdallāh's edition of the text, the name of the author Klyb Yhʾmn has been put in relation with the Χόλαιβος attested in the Periplus of the Erithrean Sea (§22). In this document of the 1st century AD, Χόλαιβος is said to be the "tyrannos" (probably the qayl) of the land of Mapharitide (here Mʿfrm), settled in the town of Sauē (as-Sawā, here S³wm).

The lineage names mentioned in the text are found in other inscriptions: Mʿfrm since the Early Sabaic RES 3945, Klʾn in the Late Sabaic CIH 621, ʾʿs¹yfr in the Qatabanic RES 3878 (suggesting that the territory was previously under Qatabanian control).

The god of the Amīr tribe, ḏū-Samāwī, is invoked in this inscription. This deity was the protector of the trade by land: representations of camels are related to his cult and the Amīr - who settled in Najrān - were engaged in trading activities. The site of as-Sawā was rather linked to the maritime commercial traffic of the Red Sea (the very Periplus states that it was located inland, at a distance of three days from the port of Muza). Avanzini assumes the god protected the long distance trade, by land but also by sea, or that as-Sawā was an important junction between land and sea commercial routes.