GlaViWo - Museum: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-LOUV-AO-1172_GL_016

Stèle; socle; document écrit

 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-LOUV-AO-1172_GL_016
Musée du Louvre (AO 1172; CIH 2)
GL-number: GL16
Currently available: Louvre, Département des Antiquités orientales
Former owner: Glaser, Eduard Material: limestone
Provenance: The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, represented by its member Joseph Derenbourg (1811-1895), had provided the funds for Eduard Glaser's (1855-1908) first trip to Yemen (October 1882-April 1884) on the condition that the scientific results would become its property.
In accordance with these contractual obligations, Eduard Glaser handed over his collection of 276 inscriptions (including several original stones) to Joseph Derenbourg in June 1884, from whom this object passed into the possession of the Musée du Louvre.
Creation date: Kings of Saba' & dhu-Raydan (200 - 300) Production date:
Period/Culture: Ancient South Arabian
Locality: Yemen
Ṣanʿāʾ
Language: Sabaic
height: 46 cm
width: 27 cm
thickness: 13.5 cm
First description: Derenbourg, Nouvelles Études, 1885 (10); pp. 58-59
Calvet-Robin, Arabie heureuse, 1997, p. 154
Linked signature, parents: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-2-13
Linked signature, children: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00603
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-01478
AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00239
Contents:
Slab with 19 line South Arabian dedicatory inscription
Remark:
The slab is exhibited at the Institut du Monde Arabe.



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