sobekreshuten:“Neo-Punic limestone votive stela with a narrow raised border. Lower part missing. Bel
sobekreshuten:“Neo-Punic limestone votive stela with a narrow raised border. Lower part missing. Below, only the head remains of a man standing in a niche with a round arch within a columned shrine. The columns have voluted capitals which support a coffered ceiling. The architrave has rows of dentil, beed and reel, and egg and dart moulding. The gabled shrine has a raised dentil border. In the centre of the pediment is a beardless male bust. Three figures stand on the pediment: on the apex is a naked bandy-legged winged Cupid. He holds a wreath in his left hand over an altar presided over by a nude Venus wearing only a thin necklace. With his right hand the Cupid clasps a thyrsus held by a cloaked Dionysus who holds a jug in his right hand. He wears a vine-branch from which dangle fruit clusters. Above the group an anthropmorphic Tanit holds a cornucopia in her right hand from which spring a grape / date cluster and a pomegranate. In her left hand she holds a branch with 2 pomegranates. In the apex is a crescent with upturned ends and a wreathed sun face.”2nd century BC-1st century BCSource: The British Museum -- source link
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