The local authority and the branch of the General Authority of Antiquities in Dhamar Governorate received nine artifacts from citizens as part of antiquities preservation initiatives, including seven pieces that were lost from the Dhamar Regional Museum after it was bombed by the aggression coalition in May 2015.
The director of the branch of the General Authority for Antiquities, Museums and Manuscripts in Dhamar, Shaddad Al-Ali, explained that the delivery of the artifacts comes within the initiative to preserve and document archaeological objects and finds, as well as efforts to preserve the antiquities and heritage in the governorate, which reflect the nobility and authenticity of the Yemeni civilization whose roots extend to prehistoric times.
It was explained that citizen Muhammad Abu Talib handed over two pieces, one of which was a stone incense burner consisting of a cubic basin and a base. On one of its facades there was a decoration representing a crescent and a disc, and the other was a fragment of a stone slab.
The members of the committee stated that the results of the examination indicate that the delivered pieces belong to the city of Kamna, one of the cities of the Kingdom of Ma’in in Al-Jawf, and it is expected that they belong to a religious building, while preliminary estimates indicate that the pieces date back to approximately the seventh-eighth century B.C. Birth.
