stela
- Museum number
- 125101
- Description
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Limestone stela with relief, gabled top missing, patches of surface wear. A woman stands in a niche with a rounded arch, her hand on an altar, both on pedestals, that of a figure with concave sides. The woman wears tunic and mantle and a necklace with a central pendant. The voussoirs of the arch contain sunken circles and are supported by fluted columns. On either side of the niche is a standard with 2 concave circles with central holes on the shaft and a leaf emerging from the top. On the arch are 2 winged figures wearing peploi, one holding a large leafy branch, the other a wreath. Above this is a Tanit figure holding a large fruit cluster in her right hand and pomegranates in her left. Birds peck at the fruit. Over her head is a crescent with upturned ends and in one corner a sunken circle with raised centre. At the bottom of the stela are traces of another scene depicting 2 figures, one holding a wreath, the other a branch.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC
- Dimensions
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Height: 100 centimetres
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Width: 39 centimetres
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Depth: 15 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Incomplete; top missing; patches of surface wear.
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 125101
- Registration number
- 1857,1218.52
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 528 (old exhibition number)
