Deposit | Hamburg, Museum für Völkerkunde, 31. 300: 1720 |
Notes | Acquired in Ṣanʿāʾ. |
Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure | ||||||||
Material | Stone | ||||||||
Measures | h. 23.6, w. 10.5, th. 10.6 | ||||||||
Decoration |
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Notes on support and decorations | This seated female figure, with column-shaped legs, has a proportioned head, massive and squared neck, angular shoulders and elbows, breasts highly positioned. The hairdress, flat on the top of head, encircles the face with two lateral triangular locks. The face is schematically carved. Fingers are marked with incised lines on square hands. There is no indication of clothing. The hair are black painted, the inscription is red painted. |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Notes | Probably from as-Sawdāʾ. |
Link to site record |
Title | RES 4733 |
Concordance | B 15 |
Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language |
Link to epigraph record |
Antonini 2001: 50, pl. 12 | 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] |