Currently not on view
Bowl with figural reliefs of a lion hunt and a bull, inscribed in Old South Arabian,
ca. 700 BCE
North Syrian
2001-169
Information
Title
Bowl with figural reliefs of a lion hunt and a bull, inscribed in Old South Arabian
Dates
ca. 700 BCE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
h. 9.0 cm, diam. 22.5 cm, diam. base 8.0 cm (3 9/16 x 8 7/8 in., 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
2001-169
Place Made
Yemen ?
Northern Syria ?
Inscription
Inscription (in Old South Arabian), interpreted by K. A. Kitchen (letter of July 2001) as reading: y d/ sh r y k m (“hand [of] Shariyakum”).
Culture
Type
Materials
Acquired by Sekhmet Ancient Art Limited (Gibraltar) at an unknown date from an unknown source; acquired by the Aboutaam brothers (Phoenix Ancient Art, New York) in 1997 from Sekhmet; purchased by the Museum (Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection Fund) in 2001 from the Aboutaam brothers.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2001," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 61 (2002): p. 101-142., p. 107
- H. Matthäus, “Phoenician metal-work up to date: Phoenician metal bowls with figural decoration in the Eastern Mediterranean, Near and Middle East and North Africa", in ed. Anne-Marie Maïla-Afeiche, Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean: Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Ages, (Bayrouth: Ministère de la Culture, Direction Générale des Antiquités, 2008)., p. 443; figs. 1-2.
