Ja 446 B 8
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 12971/15983 |
| Notes | Former number of the Museo Nazionale Romano: MNR 121061 (Zoli-Ansaldi Collection 1933). |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure | ||||||||||
| Material | Stone | ||||||||||
| Measures | h. 16.1, w. 8.6, th. 6.9 | ||||||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Complete statuette representing a seated woman with arms stretching out. The statuette belongs to the category "with columned-shaped legs" (see Ja 449). The representation is very squat and schematic (see the geometric shoulders and the somatic traits of the face). |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context |
| Link to site record |
EPIGRAPHS
| Title | Ja 446 |
| Concordance | B 8 |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language |
| Link to epigraph record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1956 a: p. 70, n. 446, pl. VII | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |
| Antonini 2001: pp. 47-48, B8, pl. 8 | Antonini, 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] |
| Antonini 2012: p. 240, n. 59 | Antonini, Sabina 2012. Catalogo. Immagini funerarie. Pages 239-250 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide. |