GlaViWo - Museum: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-21

Incense burner

 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-21
BM/Big number (125141)
BM/Registration number (1887,0629.21)
GL-number: Glaser 301
Currently available: British Museum
Former owner: Glaser, Eduard Material: limestone (yellow)
Provenance: Purchased from Eduard Glaser in 1887.
Creation date: 2ndC (early) Production date:
Period/Culture: Ancient South Arabian
Locality: Yemen
as-Sawdāʾ
Language: Sabaic
height: 40 cm ()
length: 22 cm ()
thickness: 22 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
Contents:
Yellow limestone incense-burner; Sabean inscription; stylised bull's head at the left of the lightly recessed uppermost register, followed by monograms and above a seven-line engraved inscription, of which three lines are on three sides of the projecting upper portion and the remainder on the flared base.
Object remarks:
heavily chipped and top partly missing; several old cracks emanating from the top where there is also an area of lamination



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