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Ja 489 C
Jamme 1954 c: fig. 39
Jamme 1954 c: fig. 39
Ryckmans, Jacques 1975: fig. 4
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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GENERAL NOTES
| The text is engraved on the left part of the horse's rump. On the basis of the writing style, it is probably later than the main inscription on the horse's shoulder Ja 489 A. |
TEXT
1 S²rḥb(ʾl)[ ](ḏ)-Mʿhr
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 |
| 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. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1954 c: 324, 328-329, figs 39, 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: 73-74, figs 9a-b, 13a | 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: 300-301, 303, figs 3a, 4a | 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: 360 | 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. |