Several examples with this particular shape have been found in South Arabia, including one almost identical example excavated, amongst many other fine items including iron weapons, gold jewellery, a silver belt buckle and buttons, ivory boxes, bronze and glass vessels, in an intact tomb (Tomb 3) of a man in a cemetery at ʾUmm-Hunayka, near the site of Hajar am-Dhaybiyya in the wādī Ḍuraʼ (Shabwa province) (Breton and Bāfaqīh 1993: no. 39, tav. 8, fig. 16; tav. 28, fig. 84; Simpson 2002: 207, no. 316).
Similar examples have also been found at Ḥayd ibn ʽAqīl (REF ???).
Incense burners consisting of a bowl or container on a tall stand have a long history of use in the ancient Near East (Invernizzi 1997).

It is odd that there were dedications the tombs, particularly as in some instances they were dedications from different peoples in the same graves. It is likely that these objects were booty (Robin and Bāfaqīh 1993: 75), possibly captured in the temple of a rival tribe by the warrior in the grave.