HSM 1936.1.22
By kind permission of Harvard Semitic Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Cambridge MA, Harvard Semitic Museum, 1936.1.22 |
| Notes | The object 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 | Artefact » Stela » Stela with eyes or stylized face | ||||
| Material | Stone | ||||
| Measures | h. 20, w. 17.5, th. 5 | ||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Stela with incised stylized face, chipped on all sides. The face is triangular in shape, with its components sketched as geometric elements: two curved lines as eyebrows, two parallel vertical lines as nose, lozenge eyes and mouth. Maybe Minaean. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī al-Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Necropolis |
| Link to site record |