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THBTranslated South Arabian Stone Stele, Greek Inscription
Lot 49
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
South Arabia, Yemen, ca. late 1st millennium BCE. A fascinating memorial stele, made from a mottled red and beige marble. Roughly 2/3 of the stele is taken up with an inset relief face consisting of two large, almond-shaped eyes, a simple, triangular nose, and a small mouth with a thin line demarcating lips. The plane of the face is divided almost diagonally by a natural color change in the stone, so that one side of the face is earthy red while the other side is beige. A border of incised diagonal lines surrounds 3/4 of the face. Along the top is an incised inscription in Greek. See more on this inscription below. Size: 1.9" L x 7.1" W x 10.35" H (4.8 cm x 18 cm x 26.3 cm); 10.9" H (27.7 cm) on included custom stand. Size: 7.2" W x 10.375" H (18.3 cm x 26.4 cm); 10.8" H (27.4 cm) on included custom stand.
The inscription is a name - PGOMYPSIO - which would be dative ("for…"), a common practice in funeral inscriptions. The name is likely a name from a foreign language written in Greek characters, and the PG may be a PT instead, since PG is not known in Greek but PT (as in "Ptolemy") is. The deceased in ancient Saudi Arabia were often represented in anthropomorphic funerary stelae like this one. They have been found in three areas, one of which was the cemetery at Tamna, the capital city of Qataban.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
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#157124Weathered surface with some light deposits and small chips and nicks from surface, but motifs are clear and inscription is very legible.Condition
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