LOT 0297 Yemeni Dedicatory Plaque from Kingdom of …
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1st century AD. A bronze plaque with eight lines of qatabanic Sabaean text regarding an unknown temple of the kingdom of Qatab?n, dedicated to the gods Amm dhu-Raymatum and Warafum: '1 Dlwn -b-Gbln ?bd (s¹q)ny[ ?m] 2 ?-Rymtm w-Wrfm (s¹)qnyt-?= 3 hbm ?g tkrb-s¹mn gwm/ 4 b?w mhrt Nb? m w-(yt?s¹) 5 w-?bl-s¹ ?g t(k)rb-s¹mn l-m= 6 t?n-s¹ b-s¹wt br? n r?d D..= 7 wn ?m w-Wrfm ??n-s¹ w-(mqm)-s¹ 8 w-qny-s¹ b-?g ?m w-?nby' 'Dalw?n ... offered [to ?Amm] (2) dhu-Raymatum and Warafum the offering of (3) bronze according to the promise he made to them ... (4) ... mares of Naba? um ... (5) his camel in accordance with the promise he had made to them to be (6) protected in this expedition. Dalw?n has confided (7) to ?Amm and Warafum his faculties, his abilities (8) and his possessions, with the approval of Amm and Anb?'; mounted on a custom-made stand. 1.05 kg, 23cm including stand (9"). Property of a London W1 collector; formerly acquired between 1970 and the late 1999s.
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