Ternbach 132
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 2002,0114.11 |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief | ||||
| Top | Concave | ||||
| Subject | Bull head | ||||
| Material | Alabaster | ||||
| Measures | h. 31.5, w. 13.5 | ||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | The bull's head is separately carved and fixed onto the stela. Animal muzzle rather flat with small horns, lateral eyes with multiple skin's folds and ears tied to the slab. High relief. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context |
| Link to site record |
EPIGRAPHS
| Title | Ternbach 132 |
| Concordance | CSAI I, 1056 |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic |
| Link to epigraph record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Merhav et al. 1981: 169-170, no. 132 | Merhav, Rivka 1981. A glimpse into the past. The Joseph Ternbach collection. Drawings Florica Vainer, Photographs Nahum Slapak, Transl. by Edna Ben-Dow. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum. |
| Lombardi 2008: 171, 180 | Lombardi, Alessandra 2008. Note di storia dell'arte sudarabica III. Le stele funerarie a protome taurina. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 31: 165-191. |