Inscribed Stone Block

Description This irregularly shaped fragment features two rows of inscription on its smooth front side. It is impossible to determine whether this fragment was part of a wall, a stela, or another monument, and the inscription is nearly unintelligible. The first line may contain the clan name Dhu-Nadha'.

Exhibitions

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

Provenance Ahmed [local art dealer], Ta'izz, Yemen; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, 1962, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.

Inscriptions [Transliteration] dnd' /n [...] tw / d (or) b? s[...] [Translation] Dhu-Nadha' [?]

Credit Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster, 2007