Royal Inscriptions from Ḥimyar

Late 4th–5th Century

January 384 CE

Malkīkarib Yuha’min and his sons Abīkarib As‘ad and Dhara’’amar Ayman, ki[ngs of Sa]ba’, dhū-[Raydān], Ḥadramawt, and Yamanat built, laid the foundations, plastered, and roofed their Klm palace from its foundations to the top by the power of their lord, Lord of the heaven. In the month of dhū-Di’āwān of the year four hundred and ninety-three.

Source: Garb Bayt al-Ashwal 2

January 456 CE

With the aid and help of God (Ilāhān), Owner of the heaven and the earth.

Source: CIH 540, lines 81–82

Late 5th Century CE

[ . . . ] according to the synagogues and the Jews . . . [ . . . ] Raḥmanān.

Source: Ma’sal 3, lines 23–24

Translated by Iwona Gajda.

Notes

Brackets indicate broken or unreadable text. Angled brackets indicate editorial corrections of scribal errors.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.

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