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By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
Back
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
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By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language |
| Script | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Text direction | Left-to-right |
| Text appearance | Recessed |
| Execution technique | Incision |
GENERAL NOTES
| According to Pirenne and Garbini, the statuette and its inscription are a forgery, while for Jamme and Antonini they are not. As for the inscription, it is peculiar that it is inscribed on the back of the statuette, in dextrograde cursus. |
TEXT
1 Bly(n)
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 12977/15989 |
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 23.1, w. 8.4, th. 8.6 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ansaldi 1933: fig. 74 (in the middle) | Ansaldi, Cesare 1933. Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. (Collezione di opere e di monografie a cura del Ministero delle colonie, 17). Rome: Sindacato italiano arti grafiche. |
| Jamme 1956 a: 67, pl. VII/444a-b | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |
| Pirenne 1957 a: 52-53, pl. XII/e | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1957. Chroniques d'archéologie sud-arabe 1955-1956. Annales d'Éthiopie, 2: 37-73, pls IX-XIII. |
| Garbini 1977: 376 | Garbini, Giovanni 1977. Su alcuni tipi di stele e statuette sudarabiche con iscrizione. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 37: 375-381, pls I-VI. |
| Antonini 2012: 242, cat. 65 | Antonini, Sabina 2012. Catalogo. Immagini funerarie. Pages 239-250 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide. |