UPC 32
Kitchen 2009: 265, fig. 25/15
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Unknown, Moussaïeff collection (Private collection) |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner | ||||||
| Shape | Circular with handle | ||||||
| Material | Bronze | ||||||
| Measures | h. 12; d. (burner) 8; length of handle 14.5 | ||||||
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| Notes on support and decorations | Circular incense burner with lid and handle ending in a head of ram. The object stands on three feet in shape of bull's foot; the burner wall is decorated with six plain crosses between double-line borders. From the conical lid project 4 small birds, perched on either stands or long legs (cf. Kitchen 2009: 247). |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Hajar am-Dhaybiyya |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wādī Ḍura |
| Country | Yemen |
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EPIGRAPHS
| Title | UPC 32 |
| Concordance | Moussaieff 8 |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Kitchen 2009 | Kitchen, Kenneth A. 2009. A glimpse of the wealth of the Shabwa nobility at the fall of the kingdom of Hadramawt. Pages 243-275 in Jean-François Breton (ed.). 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. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ / Beirut: Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient. |