CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


By kind permission of British Museum

DEPOSIT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 132911=1960,1212.3
NotesDonated by Dr Sidney E. Croskery. Acquired by donor in Ṣanʿāʾ in 1942.

SUPPORT INFORMATION

Support typeArtefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body
MaterialAlabaster
Decoration
Figurative subjectHuman figure
      GenderUndefined
      Part of human bodyHead
Notes on support and decorationsAlmost triangular-shaped head with hollowed out wide set eyes, small mouth, triangular nose, broad, flat face, thick neck. Straight in-cised eyebrows over a prominent brow ridge. Head finishing at the hairline.
The head was originally set in an inscribed base or displayed inside a niche.

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
Archaeological contextFunerary context
Link to site record

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Antonini 2001: 162, pl. 109Antonini, Sabina 2001. La statuaria sudarabica in pietra. Repertorio iconografico sudarabico. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: IsIAO. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]