BM 130892 Ja 45; E 19
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 130892=1951,0407.11 |
| Notes | Bequeathed by Sir Antonin Besse. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body | ||||||
| Material | Alabaster | ||||||
| Measures | h. 15.5, w. 11.4, th. 9.5 | ||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Head of female with deeply carved eyes for inlay and a well rounded face. The nose is damaged, the mouth is small, the ears are semi circular and concave with no incised detail. The flat face is not accurately modelled. There is one remaining triangular projection on the side of the face, which would have originally been covered in plaster to represent hair. |
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. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Antonini 2001: 139, pl. 81 | 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. 45 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1951. Pièces anepigraphes sud-arabes d’Aden. Le Muséon, 64: 157-176. |
| Jamme 1955 a | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1955. Pièces qatabanites et sabéennes d'Aden. Anadolu Arastirmalari, 1: 117-126. |
| 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] |