religious/ritual equipment;
table(?);
altar(?)
- Museum number
- 117929
- Description
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Limestone libation table with South Arabian inscription in Sabaean on all sides and along one upper edge; top lightly recessed; broken (bull's) head spout at one end; inscription indicates object is dedicated to Sindu-Him or Sin-Dhu'lim by Ma'dan of clan Shakim or Sakumum, 'Ahar'il of clan Yashb or Yas'bum and Hawf'asat, son of Samr or Samrun of their souls, children and this altar; regular wear marks at one end, possibly from rope burns.
- Production date
- 1stC BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 0.30 - 0.50 centimetres (lightly recessed top)
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Height: 8.50 centimetres
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Length: 63 centimetres
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Length: 38 inches
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Width: 29.50 centimetres
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Width: 11 inches
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Depth: 3.50 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- CHECK provenance
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Presumably ex-case in the Semitic Room, as a large wooden display label survives, "117929. Sacrificial table dedicated to Sindu-Ilim by Ma'dan of Shakim, 'Ahar'il of Yashb, and Hawf'asat, son of Samr. From al-Agran, Hadramaut. About 1st century B.C."
- Condition
- Good.
According to record card cleaned in February 1976.
- Acquisition notes
- Collection deposited 9 April 1926, when itemised in WAA deposit books as "6 Himyaritic stelae & frags. of inscr[iption]s & Himyaritic stamp(?)". No correspondence filed under donor's name for either this year or the year preceding.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 117929
- Registration number
- 1926,0405.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: RES 3512A,B