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Incensario

ca. mid-1st millennium BCE
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Desde mediados del primer milenio a. C. hasta el siglo VI d. C., los reinos del sudoeste de Arabia disfrutaron de gran riqueza y poder gracias a su control del comercio del incienso entre Arabia y los pueblos mediterráneos. La importancia del incienso en la religión del sudoeste de Arabia es patente en este incensario de bronce. El íbice y las serpientes que lo decoran, poderosos símbolos apotropaicos de virilidad y fertilidad, estaban frecuentemente asociados con deidades locales. El símbolo del disco y la media luna quizás alude al dios lunar, deidad principal del panteón.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Incensario
  • Fecha: ca. 500 a. C.
  • Geografía: Sudoeste de Arabia
  • Material: Bronce
  • Dimensiones: a. 27,6 cm
  • Crédito: Donación del Dr. Sidney A. Charlat, en memoria de sus padres, Newman y Adele Charlat, 1949
  • Número de inventario: 49.71.2
  • Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art

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