BM 130887
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 130887=1951,0407.6 |
| Notes | Bequeathed by Sir Antonin Besse. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief | ||||||||||
| Subject | Woman | ||||||||||
| Material | Alabaster | ||||||||||
| Measures | h. 16.5, w. 12 | ||||||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Very crude stela fragment with a standing, frontal female figure carved in high relief. The woman has her hands clasped beneath the breasts. The object, very worn and fragmentary, is incomplete; repaired from smaller fragments. The stela is probably originating from Qatabān. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī Bayḥān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context |
| Notes | According to A. Jamme (cf. Jamme 1955 a: 117), all the objects of the Besse collection are originating from the wādī Bayḥān region. |
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