Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographie

Two bas-reliefs, decorated with motifs of deployed carriages (attelages déployés in French), dating from the first centuries AD, have recently been discovered in South Arabia. Both reliefs depict a nimbed deity standing on a chariot drawn by wild animals, lions or bulls. This is an Eastern iconograp...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean-François Breton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Lumière Lyon 2 2024-07-01
Series:Frontière·s
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/frontieres/2637
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1841552510026776576
author Jean-François Breton
author_facet Jean-François Breton
author_sort Jean-François Breton
collection DOAJ
description Two bas-reliefs, decorated with motifs of deployed carriages (attelages déployés in French), dating from the first centuries AD, have recently been discovered in South Arabia. Both reliefs depict a nimbed deity standing on a chariot drawn by wild animals, lions or bulls. This is an Eastern iconography that spread to the Palmyra region and beyond, reaching Iran and Central Asia. These two are completed by a stone relief from Shabwa, the capital of the kingdom of Hadhramawt, depicting an armored divinity, also nimbed. These three bas-reliefs raise unprecedented questions about the presence of Syrian (oriental) gods in South Arabia, frequented by Syrian merchants, and indirectly about the existence of places of worship or sanctuaries that archeology does not have discovered yet.
format Article
id doaj-art-d314bd12e42e41e8ac397e9ddb360830
institution Kabale University
issn 2534-7535
language English
publishDate 2024-07-01
publisher Université Lumière Lyon 2
record_format Article
series Frontière·s
spelling doaj-art-d314bd12e42e41e8ac397e9ddb3608302025-01-09T12:57:14ZengUniversité Lumière Lyon 2Frontière·s2534-75352024-07-012172710.4000/121t0Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographieJean-François BretonTwo bas-reliefs, decorated with motifs of deployed carriages (attelages déployés in French), dating from the first centuries AD, have recently been discovered in South Arabia. Both reliefs depict a nimbed deity standing on a chariot drawn by wild animals, lions or bulls. This is an Eastern iconography that spread to the Palmyra region and beyond, reaching Iran and Central Asia. These two are completed by a stone relief from Shabwa, the capital of the kingdom of Hadhramawt, depicting an armored divinity, also nimbed. These three bas-reliefs raise unprecedented questions about the presence of Syrian (oriental) gods in South Arabia, frequented by Syrian merchants, and indirectly about the existence of places of worship or sanctuaries that archeology does not have discovered yet.https://journals.openedition.org/frontieres/2637
spellingShingle Jean-François Breton
Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographie
Frontière·s
title Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographie
title_full Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographie
title_fullStr Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographie
title_full_unstemmed Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographie
title_short Les Syriens en mer Rouge et en Arabie du Sud aux premiers siècles de notre ère : apports de l’iconographie
title_sort les syriens en mer rouge et en arabie du sud aux premiers siecles de notre ere apports de l iconographie
url https://journals.openedition.org/frontieres/2637
work_keys_str_mv AT jeanfrancoisbreton lessyriensenmerrougeetenarabiedusudauxpremierssieclesdenotreereapportsdeliconographie