BM 136357
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 136357=1937,0507.11 |
| Notes | Donated by Harry St John Bridger Philby. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief | ||||||||
| Subject | Animal | ||||||||
| Material | Alabaster | ||||||||
| Measures | h. 10.2, w. 10.5, th. 5.9 | ||||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Fragment of a stela with finely carved low relief of a horned animal, depicted in frontal view, possibly an oryx or a generic antelope. It is preserved only the upper part of the animal head with acanthus leaf between the ringed horns and triangle filled with wavy lines (probably a tuft of hair) on the front. A similar animal head is depicted on a plaque from Ḥayd ibn ʿAqīl (TC 696), that Cleveland (1965: 36-37) interprets, perhaps wrongly, as a bucranium. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | an-Nuqūb |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Cleveland 1965 | Cleveland, Ray L. 1965. An Ancient South Arabian Necropolis. Objects from the Second Campaign (1951) in Timnaʿ Cemetery. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 4). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |