Miniature Offering Table
This miniature libation table served as funerary equipment, with its bull's head symbolizing the renewal of life after death. In the Awwam cemetery at Marib, many tombs contained such miniature objects. Some represent objects of daily life and some ritual instruments like this.
Sculpture
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id
76504
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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
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_21.60_3Qtr_DD.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_21.60_3Qtr_DD.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/KPS_21.60_3Qtr_DD.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/21.60 |
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Medium
limestone
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