BM 117934
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 117934=1926,0405.6 |
| Notes | Donated by Mrs Theodore Bent. According to Theodore Bent he bought this object in Aden and it was “said to come from Hadhramout”. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework | ||||||||||
| Material | Stone | ||||||||||
| Measures | h. 34.3, w. 19.6, th. 7, lh. 8.4 | ||||||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Fragment of the edge of a limestone panel with two identical recumbent ibexes with enormous curled horns in panels carved in flat relief; details perhaps once painted in. Plain style, less detailed than BM 113232, with no eyes or mouth indicated. The horns, legs and nose touch the frame; the upturned tail does not reach the edge of the frame. There are the remains of two further ibexes above and below. One character, s¹, preserved on the side. The fragment retains evidence for three lines of ancient South Arabian text. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī Ḥaḍramawt |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bent 1900: 435 and facing | Bent, J. Theodore and Bent, Theodore Mrs. 1900. Southern Arabia. London: Smith, Elder. |