Av. Baynūn 2
By kind permission of GOAM
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Baynūn, Museum, BynM 276 |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner | ||||||
| Shape | With truncated pyramidal base | ||||||
| Material | Stone | ||||||
| Measures | h. 16.5, w. 13.5, th. 10 | ||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Complete incense burner with truncated pyramidal base. On the upper part a decoration on a recessed field with the crescent moon and the disc on a trapezoidal base framed by the false windows motif. Low relief. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Baynūn |
| Ancient site | Bynn |
| Geographical area | Khawlân |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
EPIGRAPHS
| Title | Av. Baynūn 2 |
| Concordance | BynM 276 |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic |
| Link to epigraph record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Avanzini 1985: 97-98, pl. 22 | Avanzini, Alessandra 1985. Problemi storici della regione di al-Ḥadāʾ nel periodo preislamico e nuove iscrizioni. Pages 53-115 in Pelio Fronzaroli (ed.). Studi Yemeniti. (Quaderni di semitistica, 14). Florence: Istituto di linguistica e di lingue orientali, Università di Firenze. |
| Prioletta 2013 a: 110, no. 23 | Prioletta, Alessia 2013. Inscriptions from the southern highlands of Yemen. The epigraphic collections of the museums of Baynūn and Dhamār. (Arabia Antica, 8). Roma: L'«Erma» di Bretschneider. |