UPC 17
Kitchen 2009: 260, fig. 15/18
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of animal body | ||
| Material | Silver | ||
| Measures | d. 9 | ||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | The photo is very bad. Kitchen 2009: 249: "The lion has in its open mouth the head of a human being, as if to swallow it (or bite it off) from behind". |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Hajar am-Dhaybiyya |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wādī Ḍura |
| Country | Yemen |
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EPIGRAPHS
| Title | UPC 17 |
| 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. |