Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 130887=1951,0407.6 |
Notes | Bequeathed by Sir Antonin Besse. |
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. |
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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