Text of RIE 187

‘Ezana Welde ‘Ella ‘Amida Man of Ḥalēn, King of Aksum, and of Ḥimyar, and of Raydān, and of Saba’, and of Salḥēn, and of Ṣayāmō, and of Bēgā, and of Kāsu, King of Kings, and Son of Maḥrēm, who is invincible to the enemy. His enemies attacked the ‘Ezana Gate, and when they arrived, we went out there. We encountered the King of the ‘Ezana Gate with his people, and he entered the camp. And when we arrived above the sanctuary of Dū, we offered up camels, and cattle, and goats, and women, and provisions on the twentieth day, and on the third day at dawn.

We cut down the Agʿazāt who came with Abaʿalkəʿō, king of the Agʿazāt, and those whom we cut down we captured and burned. And for Abaʿalkəʿō, king of the Agʿazāt, we spared him and burned him with the throne of his dominion. And then we appointed commanders of the army and kings of the troops to go and attack, and they went and spent the night. And then they sent the commanders of the army and the commanders of the Məṭʿān, and they spared the lives and ordered them to go. They killed the Agʿazāt and went to kill. ▧ ▧ a river and filled it with corpses, and filled it with stones, and ▧ ▧ with stones. What they found and came out, they blocked the path of the forest. And ▧▧ ▧ a river they drove and killed what they found. And from there they arrived at Dawwəlā ʾAgadā, and they continued killing and pursuing and plundering. And they sent the commanders of Dākēn and spared them and ordered them to reach Šəʿəṣot. And from Šəʿəṣot they fought with each other in the valley and descended, those who descended, and three armies gathered: Dākēn, Ḥarā, and Məṭʿān, at ʾAdabbō. And then they sent the commanders of Ḥarā and spared them and ordered them to go to where the river was. And ▧... they sent the commanders of Lākēn and spared them and ordered them to go to where the thicket was, and to come out by the path of Ṭuṭḥō, and to descend, and ▧... the rivers, and to fill the valley, and to descend by ʿAsyā. ... they rose up from the rivers and camped and went and attacked and went and spent the night. And at dawn they killed ... the entrance of Məgbaʾā Marād Maqannō. And three armies went ... with them, with ... a river with a tributary. And they reached ▧ ... ▧ ...