Notes on support and decorations | A carnelian oval ring bezel with a plain flat reverse and a rounded obverse depicting a camel-rider, seated on (or immediately behind) the hump of a walking dromedary. The rider has long hair, or a keffiyeh-like headdress. He appears to be riding bareback, guiding the animal by a rope halter attached to its head and gripping the sides of the camel with his knees. He raises a torch (or whip, or city-emblem) in his left hand. A single South Arabian letter h is engraved behind the camel-rider, which may be the initial of the rider or that of the seal engraver (cf. Jamme 1971: 53). |