GlaViWo - Museum: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-39

Stela; sculpture

AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-39

BM/Big number (125108)
BM/Registration number (1887,0629.39)

GL-number:	Glaser 307
Currently available:	British Museum

Former owner:	Glaser, Eduard	Material:	sandstone
Provenance:	Purchased from Eduard Glaser in 1887.
Creation date:	4thC BC - 3rdC BC	Production date:
Period/Culture:	Minaean (?)
Locality:	Yemen Inabbaʾ
height:	15	cm	wooden base
height:	32.50	cm	()
thickness:	12.50	cm	with wooden base
thickness:	10.50	cm	()
width:	20.50	cm	with wooden base
width:	18	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-BRMU-1887-0629-39

Contents:
Rectangular, sandstone high relief stela; slightly tapered inwards towards the top; carved in relief with a male face with oval eye-sockets originally containing inlays; eyebrows in low relief; beard represented by a lightly incised line around the chin; name Rathad'il incised as five letters in South Arabian script below head; roughly trimmed back with traces of modern plaster and an old dowel hole in the upper portion; chin damaged.

Object remarks:
good; chin heavily chipped; missing inlays from the eyes and the bottom left corner of the object (prior to mounting); modern plaster and an old dowel hole in the upper portion on the back

Remark:
This stela was acquired in Yemen in 1882/83 by Eduard Glaser. It is carved from sandstone and depicts in low relief the face of a man whose name, Rathadil, is given in the short Sabean inscription incised on the front. The empty eye-sockets were originally inlaid, and the person’s beard is indicated by a lightly incised line framing the chin. Although the inscription is in Sabean, the stela was acquired at one of the main cities belonging to the kingdom of Main in northern Yemen.

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