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Ja 489 A
Left side, with inscriptions
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 353, fig. 9
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 353, fig. 9
Left side, with inscriptions
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 353, fig. 9
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 353, fig. 9
Photo of the inscription
Jamme 1954 c: fig. 42
Jamme 1954 c: fig. 42
Inscriptions Ja 489 A and B
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 354, fig. 10
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 354, fig. 10
Ryckmans's facsimile
Ryckmans, Jacques 1975: fig. 3b
Ryckmans, Jacques 1975: fig. 3b
Jamme's facsimile
Jamme 1954 c: fig. 41
Jamme 1954 c: fig. 41
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription Ja 489 A is the original one of the three present on the horse statue, on its left shoulder, as it commemorates the dedication of two horses in bronze. Ryckmans dated the texts to the second half of the 2nd century AD. For further bibliography, see CIAS: i, 374 and Stupperich and Yule 2014. |
TEXT
1 Hwfʿṯt Yh(ʾḏn)[ ḏ]-Ġymn qwl s²ʿ—
2 bn (Ġ)[ymn ]bn(y )Rḥʾl ʾs²wʿ((bn (Y)rḥʾl ʾs²wʿ)) ḏ-Mʾḏn[m h]—
3 q(n)[y ḏt Bʿd]n[m]( )frs¹y[nh](n) w-rkb-hmy ʿ—
4 [ly-hmy ... ... ʿdy mḏ]qntn ḏ-(M)ḏrḥm l-wf—
5 [y-hw w-wfy ... ... w]-(bḥ)[r ](Ġy)mn w-[kl] ḏ-
6 [qny w-wfy ... ... ]ʾ(b)[y]t-(h)m[w ]w-ql-[hmw w-.]
7 [... ... w]fy kl ḏ-[qn]yw w[... ...]
8 [... ... ʿbd-h Hwf]ʿṯt rḍw lb-h [... ...]
9 [... ...] w-l yḍʿ (ḍ)r-h[mw w-s²]—
10 [nʾ]-hm(w)
| Ryckmans's edition has been followed. Jamme had given a remarkably different reading and restoration. | |
| 2 | Ryckmans notes: "one expects at least something like bny rḥʾl or bn yrḥʾl -if not a considerably larger lacuna. This possibility makes the proposed restorations at the beginning of each line highly tentative" (Ryckmans 1975: 302). |
| 9-10 | According to Ryckmans, "the fragment bearing the last letter of line 9 (w) is in a restored area: I think that originally it was placed somewhat lower, and constituted the end of line 10" (Ryckmans 1975: 302). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Hwfʿṯt Yhʾḏn, of the family Ġymn, qwl of the tribe 2 Ġymn, son of (?) Yrḥʾl ʾs²wʿ, of the family Mʾḏnm, 3 dedicated to ḏt Bʿdnm the two horses and their horsemen 4 on top of them [... ...] in the chapel of Mḏrḥm for his safety 5 [and the safety of ... ... and] the plain of Ġymn and everything he 6 [possessed and the safety of ... ... ] their houses and their ql 7 [... ...] the safety of all they possessed and [... ...] 8 [... ... Her servant Hwf]ʿṯt the satisfaction of Her heart [... ...] 9 [... ...] and let their war enemy and 10 their enemy be humiliated. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, DO 38.12 |
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Animal figure |
| Material | Bronze |
| Dimensions | h. 102, w. 106 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ghaymān |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Ghaymān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
| Modern site | Ṣanʿāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ṣnʿw |
| Geographical area | Sanʿāʾ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The horse is said to have come from a site south of Ṣanʿāʾ. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1954 c: 317-322, figs 40-42 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1954. Inscriptions on the Sabaean Bronze Horse of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 8: 315, 317-330. |
| Ryckmans, Jacques 1973 c: 63-68, figg 1, 9a-b, 10-12 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1973. Notes sur le cheval de bronze de Dumbarton Oaks (avec des remarques techniques de I. Vandevivere). Revue des Archéologues et Historiens d'Art de Louvain, 6: 38-74. |
| Ryckmans, Jacques 1975: 296-298, 301-302, figg 3a-b | Ryckmans, Jacques 1975. The Pre-Islamic South Arabian Bronze Horse in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection; with Technical Remarks by I. Vandevivere. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 29: 285-303. |
| CIAS: 373-386 (photos) | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
| Jändl 2009: 155-157 | Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth. |
| Stupperich and Yule 2014: 353-355, figs. 9-11 | Stupperich, Reinhard and Yule, Paul 2014. Himyarite period bronze sculptural groups from the Yemenite highlands. Pages 338-367 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). Arabian and Islamic studies. A collection of papers in honour of Mikhail Borishovich Piotrovskij on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Moskow. |