Sem 133
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 133 |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With figurative scene | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Material | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Measures | h. 7.4, w. 8.5, th. 0.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Small bronze openwork plaque with the representation of a heraldic composition of a standing man (the hero) between two rampant lions. Those three figures are placed on a thin base; the man, with nude chest and slightly projecting breasts, wears a long skirt and a wide kalathos on his head. The hero is grasping one anterior leg of each lion, while the rampant animals are perfectly specular: their heads are turned towards the exterior and one of their anterior legs is leaning on the man's thigh. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The iconographic motive of the so-called “lord of animals” belongs to an Ancient Near Eastern tradition (cf. Invernizzi and Piacentini 2018: 26, fig. 1.61).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Grohmann 1914: 68, fig. 179 | Grohmann, Adolf 1914. Göttersymbole und Symboltiere auf Südarabischen Denkmälern. (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 58/1). Vienna: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder. |
| Nielsen 1927: 172, fig. 67 | Nielsen, Ditlef (ed.) 1927. Die altarabische Kultur. Ditlef Nielsen, Handbuch der altarabischen Altertumskunde. 1. Copenhagen: A. Busck. |
| Daum 1987: 90 | Daum, Werner (ed.) 1987. Yemen. 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation in Arabia Felix. Innsbruck: Pinguin / Frankfurt: Umschau. [Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München, 29 April 1987 to 5 April 1988.] |
| Catalogue 2000: 384-386, n. 388 | 2000. Yemen. Nel paese della Regina di Saba. Catalogo della Mostra, Palazzo Ruspoli, Fondazione Memmo, Roma 6 Aprile - 30 Giugno 2000. Milan: Skira. |
| ʿAlī ʿAqīl and Antonini 2007: 235, n. IV.B.1 | ʿAlī ʿAqīl,ʿAzza and Antonini, Sabina 2007. Bronzi sudarabici di periodo preislamico. Repertorio iconografico sudarabico. 3. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: IsIAO. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
| Invernizzi and Piacentini 2018: 26, fig. 1.61 | Invernizzi, Antonio and Piacentini, Paola 2018. Il signore degli animali. Un repertorio iconografico tra antico e moderno. («Mnème». Documenti, culture, storia del Mediterraneo e dell'Oriente Antico, 11). Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso. |