HSM 1936.1.21b
By kind permission of Harvard Semitic Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Cambridge MA, Harvard Semitic Museum, 1936.1.21b |
| Notes | The item is part of a collection of nearly two hundred South Arabian items acquired by Harvard's Peabody Museum in 1935 and 1936 from a certain Israel Subeiri of Ṣanʿāʾ, through the anthropologist Professor Carlton S. Coon, at that time on the Harvard faculty. In 1936 the Harvard Semitic Museum purchased from the Peabody Museum a number of items in this collection. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar | ||||||||
| Material | Stone | ||||||||
| Measures | h. 20.5, w. 19.5, th. 7 | ||||||||
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| Notes on support and decorations | Fragment of architectural structure (likely a pillar) with decoration in low relief. From the top, sequence of geometric motifs: a kind of double ovoli motif; zigzag lines; sequence of recumbent ibexes. Above the ovals, traces of the upper figurative sequence are visible but difficult to identify. Could it be a squared pedestal decorated with zigzag lines, common in the representation of the Banāt ʿĀd? The fragment belongs to a unique decorative frieze with HSM 1936.1.21a; these fragments, together with HSM 1936.1.23 and HSM 1936.1.24 could belong to the same pillar. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī al-Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple |
| Notes | The fragment originates from one of the "Banāt ʿĀd" temples. |
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