Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 102476=1907,1012.1 |
Notes | Purchased from Charles Albert Brenchley through George Hallett. |
Support type | Artefact » Lamp |
Material | Bronze |
Measures | Not available |
Notes on support and decorations | Lamp (or incense burner), cast in two parts with a shallow disc bowl originally attached to a separate flared stand cast on a clay core. |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Link to site record |
The bronze lamp bears the inscription ʾAbīkarib son of Rabḥum has dedicated these ten lamps’ was found still standing upright at his feet. Proposed dating: 1st-2nd centuries AD. |
Breton and Bāfaqīh 1993 | Breton, Jean-François and Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1993. Trésors du Wādī Duraʾ (République du Yémen). Fouilles franco-yémenites de la nécropole de Hajar am-Dhaybiyya. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
Robin and Bāfaqīh 1993 | Robin, Christian J. and Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1993. Les inscriptions sur les objets. Pages 71-75 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. |
Invernizzi 1997 | Invernizzi, Antonio 1997. Near-Eastern incense-burners and pyraeums (I millennium B.C. – I millennium A.D. 18, pp. 241-61. al-Rāfidān, 18: 241-261. |
Simpson 2002 | Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London] |