And here's a devoted worshiper...
Posted on 03/24/2019 2:53:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"This plaque comes from a temple dedicated to the god Athtar Harman" Robin, researcher emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, told Live Science, explaining that "Bana" is a name used for a temple. "This god and his temple were unknown previously. Some details suggest that this temple was in the vicinity of Sana'a [also spelled Sana'a, a city which is the capital of Yemen]," Robin said, adding that he believes the tablet dates to the first century B.C.
Historical records tell of a number of kingdoms that flourished in Yemen more than 2,000 years ago, some of them involved in the trade of incense and spices.
The bronze tablet, which was recently put up for auction by Artemis Gallery, a company based in Colorado, comes with a number of mysteries: Who is this god and where is his lost temple? Who are the people named on the tablet? And how did the tablet get to the United States?
The text provides a few clues, suggesting that the temple is located not far from Sana'a, Robin said. Another Saba language inscription discovered in 1909 at the site of Shibam al-Ghiras, located northeast of Sana'a, refers to a "Bana" located at Shibam al-Ghiras.
Additionally, the name "Khawliyan" is mentioned in another inscription, found at a site called Mahram Bilqis, which lists the "name of princes of the commune Ayfa," Robin said. Scholars are not certain where exactly Afya was located, but the people who lived there were "Fayshanite," a group that lived in the area around Sana'a, Robin said.
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Thanks!
Is that what it was?
It was horrific and on a grand scale.
Thanks.
Sparklite you ####!!! LOL
you KNOW I’m brain damaged and miss things!!
What a moron I am lol!!!
Gof’uhkyurs elf LOL!!!
I was wondering where the elf came from!!!
I’m dying laughing right now!!!!!
LOL
Marlon and I have one thing in common.
We both looked great when we were young, and then... :(
Oh, by the way, here is the stela they left behind.
https://africanrockart.britishmuseum.org/assets/images/site/ETHSOD0050002.jpg
Aaannnd - it’s Sunday Evening on Free Republic!
you mother ####er!!! LOL
You would have been really popular in my Italian neighborhood growing up :)
Do you know I STILL expected the possibility of a REAL stela related to this article!
Sunkenciv dignifies us with these fantastic articles that boggle the mind and what do you do?!?!
Sunkenciv, I DEMAND sparklite be kicked off the PING! :)
LOL
See post 26.
That’s what I get for trying to LEARN on sunkenciv’s threads!!
“I’m smart. Not like everybody says, like dumb. I’m smart and I want respect!!” :)
I went through a LOT of those when I first started in computers.
I’ve always loved that guy. He looks so earnest...
Very cool
That is not necessarily true. Marib, the center of the Queen of Sheba, survives as an archeological site. The island of Socotra is a protected bio reserve, known for its rare and interesting plant life. Sana'a was founded by Noah's son Shem. There are many Jewish people in Yemen whose ancestors were there at the time of the Queen of Sheba. Other pre-Islam sites like Amran and Shibam are interesting for their history and architecture and are not really Islamic, other than Sunni Muslims live there now.
The Saudis destroy stuff in Yemen by bombing it. The Yemenis just build over it.
“In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”.
The Queen of Sheba wasn't in Yemen. Socotra's pretty odd and interesting. The Marib dam is a ruin, and large enough and remote enough to have survived as s ruin, but only dates to the 6th c BC. At the beginning of the most recent phase of the decades-long Yemeni civil war, the last 50 or so Jews ceased to be, apparently they were mass-murdered.
Ye-amen and Ye-amen!
My pleasure.
You think JimRob would trust me with that much power?!? ;^)
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