Incense Burner
30-47-97
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: South Arabia
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 30-47-97 |
| Current Location | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display |
| Provenience | South Arabia |
| Date Made | 800-1 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Bronze |
| Description | Bronze or copper. Circular trough on a spreading columnar stand, with three short feet. A rectangular piece like a screen (155 x 93 mm.) rises on the side of the trough. It is adorned on the outside with a crescent and star between two straight and two snake-like lines, and crowned by six beaded points. The inside is lined with hard burned clay. |
| Length | 38.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Quill Jones, 1930 |
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