Altar (uncertain)
30-47-35
From: South Arabia
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 30-47-35 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | South Arabia |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Alabaster |
| Description | Alabaster slab with reliefs. The decoration is made of ten antelopes' heads (or bulls' heads? Bukranion), four of which are broken or burnt, between two tower-like constructions. The con-structions are of the typical South Arabian style; a door in a recess, and a window above a straight lintel. |
| Height | 7.5 cm |
| Length | 393 cm |
| Width | 100 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Quill Jones, 1930 |
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