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Location:

  • Jordan, Samrā
  • geo:31.365587,35.782459
  • Location uncertain

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=33122

Annotations

The basalt stele was discovered in 1930 at Balu at the Northern partof Karak Plateau. The Egyptianising in style stele portrays three figures in investiture scene?

Sources:

  1. Dov Rosner, The Moabites, Brill Archive, 1976, pp.31-33
  2. Bruce Routledge, Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Press 2004, pp.82-85
  3. Fawzi Zayadine, Sculpture in Ancient Jordan, in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, ed. Piotr Bienkowski, Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, pp.31-61
  4. Carolyn Routledge, The Balu'a Stele Revisited, - https://www.academia.edu/6079620
  5. Geoffrey W. Bromiley eds., The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Tom 4, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 1988, pp. 394-396

Relevant museums

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.


Nearby

Shihan Stela - Rujm el Abd

Shihan warrior stela had been found at the site of Rujm el-'Abd

Areopolis (11 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace471. Areopoli. Tsimova.

Lehun (12 km)

Lehun - Church, Settlement, Temple, Fort, Mosque; 30 BC - AD 300; Pleiades #697695


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