GlaViWo - Museum: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-KHMU-SEM_0001

Vertragsstele von Riyâm

 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-KHMU-SEM_0001
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Ägyptische Sammlung, SEM 1)
GL-number: GL1076
Currently available: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Ägyptisch - Orientalische Sammlung
Former owner: Glaser, Eduard Material: limestone
Provenance: The object is part of a large collection which Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) brought back from his fourth trip to Yemen (1892-1894).
The Glaser collection was donated in 1894 by Samuel Horowitz (1841-1924), the chairman of the Jewish community in Lviv, to the then Imperial and Royal Ministry of Culture and Education. The collection subsequently came into the possession of the then Imperial Court Museum (now the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna).
 Associated names: Taʾlab Riyām 
ʿAlhān Nahfān 
Creation date: beginning of 3rd century CE Production date:
Period/Culture: Ancient South Arabian
Locality: Yemen
Riyām
Language: Sabaic
height: 79 cm
width: 48 cm
thickness: 13 cm
First description: Glaser, Die Abessinier in Arabien und Afrika, 1895, pp. 38-67
Müller, Südarabische Alterthümer, 1899, pp. 1 ff.
Linked signature, parents: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-OSTA-AVA-UP_1854CUM_1
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-OSTA-AVA-UP_2090CUM_4
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-OSTA-AVA-UP_2090CUM_2
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-T3
Linked signature, sisters: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-SMBP-VA2669
Linked signature, children: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00576
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00319
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00369
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-ZAMU-11-06-007
Contents:
slab with a 27-line inscription; treaty of alliance between the kings 'Alhân of Saba, Gedarot of Axum & Ghaylân of Ḥaḍramawt
Remark:
According to information available in Eduard Glaser's work 'Die Abessinier in Arabien und Afrika', Glaser found no less than 16 inscriptions or fragments of inscriptions bearing the same or almost the same text. The inscription GL 1076 available in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is the most complete one.
Another version of the text (GL 830) is available at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, object identifier: VA 2669.



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