Sem 28
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 28 |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner | ||||
| Shape | Squared | ||||
| Material | Stone | ||||
| Measures | h. 5.5, w. 7.6, th. 7.6 | ||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Limestone low squared incense burner decorated on all its sides with two rows of false windows and three rows of dentils. Each side shows three couple of superimposed false windows, with the central one slightly recessed. On the upper row the false windows consist in an empty rectangular cavity, while in the lower one the window cavities are segmented. The upper surface shows a shallow rounded cavity. Just one of the four angular legs is preserved. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This object, for its structure and decoration, is comparable with an incense burner originating from the necropolis of Ḥayd Ibn ʿAqīl, TC 2012 (see Cleveland 1965: 120, pl. 92).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, David H. 1899: 47 | Müller, David H. (ed.) 1899. Südarabische Altertümer im Kunsthistorischen Hofmuseum. Vienna: Alfred Hölder. [Im Auftrage und mit Unterstützung des Oberstlämmerer-Amtes seiner K. und K. Apost. Majestät] |
| Nielsen 1927: 155, pl. 43 | Nielsen, Ditlef (ed.) 1927. Die altarabische Kultur. Ditlef Nielsen, Handbuch der altarabischen Altertumskunde. 1. Copenhagen: A. Busck. |
| Cleveland 1965: 120, pl. 92 | Cleveland, Ray L. 1965. An Ancient South Arabian Necropolis. Objects from the Second Campaign (1951) in Timnaʿ Cemetery. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 4). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |