BM 136808
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 136808=1977,0226.10 |
| Notes | Pair with 1977,0226.11 (BM136809). |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Personal adornment » Strip |
| Material | Gold |
| Measures | l.14.4, w. 1.2, th. 0.4, with loops, strip, wt. 4.4 g |
| Notes on support and decorations | The face of the strip is decorated with very small granules as beading enclosing plain strips and groups of four hollow hemispherical granules, with a row of larger granules above; the flat plain reverse has three equally spaced loops which were intended for attachment. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī Bayḥān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The attachment loops imply that this object was an appliqué which was originally fastened to cloth or leather. This type of appliqué has a lengthy history on the Russian steppe but became more popular across the Near East during and after the Achaemenid period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Simpson 2002: 121, cat.133, (uppermost of the two illustrated objects) | Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London] |