Votive plaque inscribed with Sabaean dedication
Unknown
ca. late 1st millennium BCE · Copper alloy · Ancient Near Eastern Art
This votive plaque with a raised border around its edges has a Sabaean dedicatory inscription. While the worship of aniconic images was widespread among South Arabian cultures, the precise significance of the inscription as a cult object is uncertain. The practice of dedicating the inscription itself, as opposed to placing the inscription on an object intended for dedication, is a departure from the contemporary customs of greater Mesopotamia and Iran.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. late 1st millennium BCE
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Department
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit line
- Pfeiffer Fund, 1993
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