Stela with a Concave Top

first half 1st century CE

16.5 cm 25 cm 8.4 cm

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Images of gods were uncommon in ancient South Arabia. This trapezoidal, undecorated stela represents the concept of divinity. The dedicatory inscription on the two-step base records that the stela was a memorial to Hawfi-il of the Marran clan in the temple of Risafum.

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Sale, Sotheby's, London, May 18, 1970, lot 64; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, May 18, 1970, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.
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