Miniature Offering Table

6th-4th century BCE

4.7 cm 2 cm 6.6 cm

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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.

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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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