Small-format relief (man with sword), alabaster, chiseled, reliefed, alabaster, Total: Height: 11.5 cm; Width: 8 cm; Depth: 3.5 cm, Inscription: at the upper edge: XII [head] I [O? ], Reliefs, human body/figure/act, man, standing figure, sword, The small-format, very flat relief shows a man with a long robe in frontal view. In his right hand he holds a sword. There is an inscription on the upper edge. In the case of the relief, which comes from the collection of the Hamburg geographer Carl August Rathjens (1887-1966), it is not definitively certain whether it is an antique original. During his research trips to Yemen, during which Rathjens was one of the first researchers to also examine Sabaean art and culture
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