Deposit | ʿAtaq, Museum, ATM 284 |
Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief | ||||||||||||||||
Subject | Woman | ||||||||||||||||
Material | Alabaster | ||||||||||||||||
Measures | h. 34, w. 26 | ||||||||||||||||
Decoration |
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Notes on support and decorations | Stela representing a female bust with her right hand raised and her left one holding a sheaf of wheat. The woman wears a pleated tunic, an elaborate necklace and bracelets on each wrist. Neck with multiple necklines. Either the tunic or the necklace are very similar to those of CIAS P 45/s 4/46.11=CSAI I, 300 and CIAS P 45/s 4/98.Fr=CSAI I, 302. Face completely damaged; head slightly protruding from the upper limit of the slab. Lower semicircle-shaped limit of the bust defined by a grooved band. High relief. |
Modern site | an-Nuqūb |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Funerary context |
Link to site record |
Title | MAFYS-Dura 10 |
Concordance | CSAI I, 710; ATM 284 |
Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic |
Link to epigraph record |
Breton 1993: 40-41, pl. 21/63 | Breton, Jean-François 1993. Les objets de luxe. Pages 23-41 in Jean-François Breton and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh. Trésors du Wādī Duraʾ (République du Yémen). Fouilles franco-yémenites de la nécropole de Hajar am-Dhaybiyya. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |