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Ja 489 B
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
Ryckmans, Jacques 1975: fig. 6a
Inscriptions Ja 489 A and B
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 354, fig. 10
Stupperich and Yule 2014: 354, fig. 10
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 | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Casting | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription is written on a bronze patch used for a restoration of the statue in antiquity. The writing style suggests that the inscription is earlier than the main text on the horse's shoulder Ja 489 A. For further bibliography, see CIAS: i, 374 and Stupperich and Yule 2014. |
TEXT
1 ʾhʿm
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 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ghaymān |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Ghaymān |
| Country | Yemen |
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| 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. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1954 c: 322-324, figs 38, 40-41 | 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: 68-73, figs 9, 13b-d | 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: 298-300, 302-303, figs 3a, 6a-d | 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. |
| 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. |