7TH CENTURY

SOUTH ARABIAN

15×15 Cm

Hemispherical in form, hammered from a heavly and thick single bronze sheet and decorated with interwine rings in form of blet in the middle of horizontal registers in dividing of ibexexs animal appliqués, and around angle embossed with the an islamic inscriptions rounded form as La Ilaha IllAllah appliqué formed over a matrix and placed into a conforming.

The presence of decorated bronze bowls during the later Early-Islamic period, mainly in the habitats of the modern Yemen was collectively called Arabia Felix in Latin, connotation “Happy Arabia.” Yemen also known as  “Al Saba

Yemen” is mentioned several times in the Quran, two surahs are dedicated to the land of Yemen Al Saba and Al Ahqaf, which also elevates the blessed land’s status in Islamic history. Tir 6, 1399 AP. 

Nevertheless, when the Romans inhabited Egypt in the 1st century BC they made the Red Sea their primary avenue of commerce and it is well established that Numerous decorated bowls and bowl segments were discovered in southern Arabia one or more conceivable fragments were found at the Arabian peninsula and a single bowl comes from a Pre-Islamic period.

Additionally, they are also analogous to the so-called Phoenician – or more correctly Levantine – bowls produced in the early 7th century B.C. 

They coalesce local Levantine essences with imagery borrowed from Northern Mesopotamia and Egypt, and local Southern Arabian themes, such as camel and horse riding, often composed in radial zones. 

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Comes with a certificate from the Art Loss Register.