Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 141548=1985,0223.17 |
Notes | Donated by D.B. Doe, MBE. |
Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body | ||||||
Material | Alabaster | ||||||
Measures | h. 22.40, w. 13.50, th. 7.80 | ||||||
Decoration |
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Notes on support and decorations | Female head with a highly polished rounded face in fine white calcite alabaster which becomes increasingly green down the neck. The very subtlety modelled face has eyes hollowed for inlay, a coffee bean mouth, a well proportioned nose, prominent ears, and a stepped hairline above temples. The head was originally set in an inscribed base or displayed inside a niche. There are rough vertical tools marks on the back and on the flat top. |
Modern site | Ḥayd Ibn ʿAqīl |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Funerary context: Necropolis |
Notes | The probably provenance from the cemetery of Ḥayd ibn ʿAqīl is proposed by Antonini. |
Link to site record |
Antonini 2001: 137-138, pl. 78 | 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] |
Doe 1971: 259, pl. 18 (far left) | Doe, D. Brian 1971. Southern Arabia. London: Thames and Hudson. |