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| Keywords: South Arabian - Miniature Offering Table - Walters 2160 - Three Quarter.jpg This miniature libation table served as funerary equipment with its bull's head symbolizing the renewal of life after death In the Awwam cemetery at Marib many tombs contained such miniature objects Some represent objects of daily life and some ritual instruments like this century 6 4 BC limestone cm 2 4 7 6 6 accession number 21 60 76504 Sotheby's London between 1963 and 1971 Giraud and Carolyn Foster Baltimore between 1963 and 1971 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster 2007 Faces of Ancient Arabia The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2008 place of origin Arabian Peninsula Walters Art Museum license South Arabian art in the Walters Art Museum Art of Saudi Arabia Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
