Objekt:

 Skarabäus (§ 36-131), Steatit, 16 x 11,5 x 7,5 mm.

Datierung:

 9.-8. Jh. (Phoenician).

Herkunft:

 Achsib, The Southern cemetery, Area A, Tomb 69, Locus 508, basket 2670; 8.-7. Jh.

Sammlung:

 Jerusalem, IAA 96-1992.

Darstellung:

 Within an oval frame are arranged in a decorative way nine signs in two zones: The upper zone contains the upper part of a cartouche without its base line (Keel 1995: § 462), flanked by two antithetic m˓t signs (Keel 1995: § 462; for this kind of composition see Gjerstad 1935: 129 No. 76, pl. 29,76). In this open cartouche are four signs - ; mn, m˓t and an upside down nfr sign (the sign here read as m˓t may also be read as j; together with the mn this would be an allusion to the famous Mnj; see Keel 1995: § 625 and Keel 1997b: Achsib Nr. 33 and London UC 30169, unpublished with a cartouche with , mn and jj; for and mn with two nfr see Hall 1913: No. 1523) The lower zone contains a ḫpr sign in the center (Keel 1995: § 454 and Keel 1995: 516) flanked also by two antithetic m˓t signs (cf. Keel 1997b: Achsib Nr. 136; Keel 2010a: Tell el-Far˓a-Süd Nr. 381, 9th-8th cent. BCE).

Bibliographie:

Keel 1997b: 68f, Achsib Nr. 142.

DatensatzID:

13920

Permanenter Link:

  https://bodo.unifr.ch/bodo/id/13920