stela
- Museum number
- 125077
- Description
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Limestone stela with flat top, 3 registers. Above, a bearded deity (Saturn) stands in the centre. He holds a "falx" (knife for cutting vines) in his right hand with his left hand is raised to his head. He is flanked by Dioscuri with horses. In the central register, which has a double arch, a man and a woman stand on either side of a horned altar on a tapering base. The woman wears a tunic with "clavi" (shoulder stripes) and short veil and the man also wears a tunic with "clavi" and a mantle. The folds of the garments of both figures are highly stylised. They each hold an offering and have one hand on the altar. Below is a man with a bull and, on its other side, a man holding a gabled basket on his head.All eyes of the figures have incised holes and there are larger holes on the border.
- Production date
- 250-350
- Dimensions
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Height: 74 centimetres
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Width: 43 centimetres
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Depth: 10 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair.
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Acquisition notes
- There is some confusion over the role of Mr. Doubleday in the acquisition process as according to the register this collection was purchased through him in Tunis and according to the record card for this object it was bought off him. Some of the acquisition details have been obtained from the Greek and Roman department registers for this collection.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 125077
- Registration number
- 1850,0304.39
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 501 (Reade collection number?)
