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Wādī al Bālū`, Moabite stele, Egyptianising in styleWādī al Bālū`, Moabite stele, Egyptianising in style

Location:

  • Jordan, Samrā
  • geo:31.36569,35.782246
  • Location uncertain

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=36274

Annotations

Stela of the warrior dates to Late Bronze (c. 1200 BC), to the Iron Age (c. 800 BC)1. Fawzi Zayadine suggest that Shihan stela and Balu` stela may have come from the same place

See:

  1. Fawzi Zayadine, Sculpture in Ancient Jordan, in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, Piotr Bienkowski eds., Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, p. 36
  2. http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/stele-warrior-god
  3. Robert Deutsch, P. Hunziker Rodewald, The Shihan Stele Reconsidered, in: J. Elayi and J. M. Durand (eds.): Bible et Proche-Orient. Mélanges André Lemaire III (Transeuphratène 46). Paris, 2014, pp. 6-10
  4. Eveline J. van der Steen, Tribes and Territories in Transition: The Central East Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age : a Study of the Sources, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta 130, Peeters Publishers, 2004, p. 24-25

References

  1. Eveline J. van der Steen, Tribes and Territories in Transition...p.24


Relevant museums

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.


Nearby

Balu`a Stele

Moabite stele - currently in Amman Museum.

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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