BM 130889 Ja 43; E 8
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 130889=1951,0407.8 |
| Notes | Bequeathed by Sir Antonin Besse. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body | ||||||
| Material | Alabaster | ||||||
| Measures | h. 22.30, w. 11.8, th. 11.7 | ||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Female head with eyes hollowed for inlay, a small coffee bean shaped pouting mouth, delicately modelled cheek bones, a fine jaw line, and a slender neck. The head was originally set in an inscribed base or displayed inside a niche. The face is highly polished and carved to the correct depth. The hair is roughly carved for plaster; there are tool marks across the surface of the back. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ḥayd Ibn ʿAqīl |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Necropolis |
| Notes | The probably provenance from the cemetery of Ḥayd ibn ʿAqīl is proposed by Antonini. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Antonini 2001: 136, pl. 76 | 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] |
| Jamme 1951: 174, no. 43 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1951. Pièces anepigraphes sud-arabes d’Aden. Le Muséon, 64: 157-176. |
| Jamme 1971 b: 40-41 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206497#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |