stamp-seal(?);
pendant(?)
- Museum number
- 113202
- Description
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Bronze bull-head with suspension-ring, possibly used as stamp-seal or pendant; four lines of reversed South Arabian text engraved on base.
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.60 centimetres
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Width: 1.60 centimetres
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Depth: 1.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair.
- Acquisition date
- 1915
- Acquisition notes
- Collection registered in error as being "Purchased from Col. Prideaux" whereas Report to Trustees, dated 2 January 1915, and Trustees' Minutes dated 9 January 1915 refer to purchase of this collection from "Lt A.R. Prideaux" and itemises the pieces as "Four small objects, two of which have Himyaritic inscriptions". The accuracy of the latter reports is confirmed by correspondence from Miss Florence G. Prideaux of 6 Churchfields, Margate, who refers to her desire to sell the objects belonging to her late brother Colonel W.F. Prideaux (who died in 1914) and which she describes as including "some old Himyaritic marbles, carved. They are, we believe, 2000 years old" but difficult to send as "they are frightfully heavy. One is supposed to be a representation of the Trinity, the others are just heads ... there are also two censers of some kind of stone of the same age" but that she has written to her brother's eldest son "in Persia" about their possible sale (ANE Corres, dated 26/1/15, 23/2/15).
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 113202
- Registration number
- 1915,0109.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Ja 2205 (siglum)