South Arabian King Rabbishamsum Nimran Bronze Dedicatory Plaque

YEMEN, CIRCA 150 A.D.

11 x 17 1/4 in. (13 5/8 in.) (2.03 kg total, 28 x 18.6 cm (34.5 cm high including stand)).

Rectangular in profile with spur to each upper angle; high-relief reserved epigraphic text in ten lines with void at lower centre; dedicated to the god Dhu-Samāwī by Ẓabiyum Yarḥab, under the Reign of King Rabbīshamsum Nimrān; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Ex Robin Marshal-Carter, Adelaide, South Australia, 1970.
Private collection, London, UK.

Accompanied by a full transliteration and translation into modern English.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12697-235195.

Literature

Cf. a fragment of a similar bronze South Arabian Inscribed plaque in Maraqten, M., ‘An Inscribed Hasaitic Bronze Plaque’ in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy,1997, pp.282-283, fig.1.

Footnotes

From the temple of Yaghrū consecrated to the god dhu-Samāwī, in the wādī 'l-Shudayf in northern Yemen.

CONDITION

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From the Temple of Yaghru

LOT 0273