BM 130891 Ja 44; E 88
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 130891=1951,0407.10 |
| Notes | Bequeathed by Sir Antonin Besse. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body | ||||||
| Material | Alabaster | ||||||
| Measures | h. 16, w. 13.1, th. 11.1 | ||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Male head with flat broad face, eyes hollowed for inlay with plaster adhesive remaining in the interior, wide arched incised eyebrows high above brow ridge, originally inlaid, a long triangular nose, a small straight incised mouth, a drilled hole to indicate a dimple on the chin and a short curtain beard running along the jaw line. The reverse is rough and the poll is finished flat. The head was originally displayed inside a niche. |
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: 174 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1951. Pièces anepigraphes sud-arabes d’Aden. Le Muséon, 64: 157-176. |
| Antonini 2001: 158, pl. 104 | 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] |