Stela with a Bull's Head

Description This stela with an unusual raised band-like frame was probably not inserted in a base but placed in a wall niche in a tomb. The bull's image is executed in raised relief; a damaged inscription on the upper frame names the owner: 'Resem or 'Reset.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/08/2008	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2008.

Provenance Sotheby's, London, between 1963 and 1971; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, between 1963 and 1971, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.

Inscriptions [Transliteration] 'rsm (or) 'rst [Translation] 'Resem (or) 'Reset

Credit Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster, 2007