Deposit | ʿAtaq, Museum, ATM 147 |
Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief | ||||||||||
Subject | Human figure | ||||||||||
Material | Alabaster | ||||||||||
Measures | h. 13.0, w. 12.0, th. 4.0 | ||||||||||
Decoration |
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Notes on support and decorations | Fragment of stela with human figure preserving only the naked torso of a man, with well developed pectorals. His left arm shows a hole, probably intended to insert the forearm, in correspondence of which we can see an object interpretable as a club or an animal head. The torso probably represents Hercules. On the back there is a graffito: l. 1: | hrb, l. 2: hbḥ. The graffito is probably a fake (cf. Dentzer-Feydy 2009: 143, n. 127). |
Modern site | Shabwa |
Ancient site | S²bwt |
Geographical area | Shabwa |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Dentzer-Feydy 2009: 143; 163, fig. 40 | Dentzer-Feydy, Jacqueline 2009. Le décor sculpté en pierre. Pages 131-164 in Jean-François Breton (ed.). Fouilles de Shabwa IV. Shabwa et son contexte architectural et artistique du Ier siècle avant J.-C. au IVe siècle après J.-C.. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 4. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 190). Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ / Beirut: Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient. |