BM 130894 Ja 49; C 96
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 130894=1951,0407.13 |
| Notes | Bequeathed by Sir Antonin Besse. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body | ||||||
| Material | Stone | ||||||
| Measures | h. 9, w. 6.3, th. 5.2 | ||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Small limestone head of a female with a round gentle face, large round eyes, a small nose and mouth, and finished chin length hair flowing straight down the back, tucked behind the ears, with a rough poll. The depth of carving is such that it could be fully in the round, although there is a finished back surface. Antonini suggests that the head can belong to a sitting figure. |
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
| Jamme 1951: 175, no. 49 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1951. Pièces anepigraphes sud-arabes d’Aden. Le Muséon, 64: 157-176. |
| Antonini 2001: 106-107, pl. 58 | 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] |