Stone Block with a Spurious Inscription
This rectangular block has a two-line "boustrophedon" inscription. The term, which translates as "turning like oxen in plowing," describes inscriptions that read continuously from right to left and then left to right, a common feature in South Arabian texts before the 4th cent...
Sculpture
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id
76508
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| contentType |
contentType
sculpture
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Sotheby's, London, between 1963 and 1971; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, between 1963 and 1971, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_2007.17.49_Fnt_DD.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_2007.17.49_Fnt_DD.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_2007.17.49_Fnt_DD.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/2007.17.49 |
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