Open Question
The Sabaic inscriptions of his reign stop at the Aksumite conquest, the Syriac accounts of the killings at Najran do not describe his end, and the story in which he rides his horse into the sea rather than be taken appears only in much later Arabic narrative. The reference literature reports the death as approximate for exactly this reason.
What would resolve this A dated south Arabian inscription from the period of the Aksumite takeover that names the outcome, or an early Aksumite, Syriac or Byzantine notice of the campaign that reports how the Himyari king was disposed of.
OpenSouth Arabian epigraphy, Ethiopic and Syriac historiographyG. W. Bowersock, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
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