GlaViWo - Museum: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-11

Stela

AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-11

BM/Big number (125112)
BM/Registration number (1887,0629.11)

GL-number:	Glaser 303
Currently available:	British Museum

Former owner:	Glaser, Eduard	Material:	limestone (yellow)
Provenance:	Purchased from Eduard Glaser in 1887.
Creation date:	1stC	Production date:
Period/Culture:	Ancient South Arabian (?)
Locality:	Yemen Ṣanʿāʾ
height:	28	cm	()
thickness:	5.50	cm	()
width:	14.50	cm	()

First translation:

Jamme 1971a

Linked signature, parents:	AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-ZAMU-11-01-390 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-LOAR-232-34-005
Linked signature, children:	AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-01470 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00211

Contents:
Rectangular yellow limestone funerary stela of a person called Madhab, with 2 incised lozenge-shaped eyes representing the face and a single-line ruled three-letter South Arabian inscription across the centre and which has been smeared with red pigment.

Object remarks:
worn surfaces

Remark:
The stela was acquired as part of a collection formed in Yemen in 1882/83 by Glaser.

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