2ND CENTURY B.C./1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A SOUTH ARABIAN INSCRIBED ALABASTER STELE
2ND CENTURY B.C./1ST CENTURY A.D.
With a standing female figure in relief, wearing a long tunic with her feet emerging below, her hands clasped together in front, an inscription across the base reads "Ghawthum, she of (the clan) Sabhat", head missing
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired by Major T. W. Stubb of the Sherwood Foresters, during service in the Wadi Baihan (Bayhan), South West Arabia, 1959-1960.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. M. Honeyman, Epigraphic South Arabian Antiquities, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, XXI, No. 1, January 1962, pp. 38-39, pl. IV.

For similar Qatabanian stele excavated at Hayd ibn 'Aqil, cemetery of Tamna', capital of Qataban, in Wadi Baihan, cf. R. Cleveland, An Ancient South Arabian Necropolis, Baltimore, 1965, pls. 44-48.

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