A SOUTH ARABIAN LIMESTONE INCENSE BURNER

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A SOUTH ARABIAN LIMESTONE INCENSE BURNER
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
With a pyramidal pedestal base inscribed on two sides with five rows of Old South Arabian reading, "Abd-il and Dhakhirum, the sons of Nihmayan, clients servants of (the clan) Dhu-Shar'an, have [dedicate]ed to Athtar [with]in Hidrum an incense-altar and two statues for their well-being, and the well-being of their ... and their increase, for child[ren] and prosperity," the upper portion with a deep square bowl stepped along the sides, the front panel decorated in raised relief in four divided sections, rearing ibexes to the left and right with long back-curving horns, their bodies facing out, their heads turned back, the central section with a crescent moon and solar orb above a frontal bovine head, dentils below
21¾ in. (55.2 cm.) high

來源

European Collection, 1985.

拍品專文

For a related example of similar style with a crescent moon and solar orb, from the Bar'ân temple at Mârib, see fig. 43, p. 113 in Simpson, ed., Queen of Sheba, Treasures from Ancient Yemen. For an analysis of incense burners, see p. 112, op. cit.