Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 130901= 1951,0407.20 |
Notes | Bequeathed by Sir Antonin Besse. |
Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure | ||||||||||||
Material | Bronze | ||||||||||||
Measures | h. 14.4, w. 5.07, th. 3.1, wt. 344.5 g | ||||||||||||
Decoration |
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Notes on support and decorations | A cast bronze statuette of a naked woman wearing a diadem with her hair centrally parted and rolled into a plait, which hangs down the back. The hair is indicated with incised lines. She has her left hand over one breast and may have been holding an object in her right (this hand is slightly misshapen). The figure is missing the right leg from the knee. |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Notes | The provenience from wādī Bayḥān has been proposed by Jamme. According to ʿAlī Aqīl, Antonini 2007: 137, the provenience could be Timnaʿ. |
Link to site record |
Proposed dating: the statuette is probably an import datable to the 2nd- 1st century BC (ʿAlī ʿAqīl and Antonini 2007: 38, 137). |
Jamme 1951: 175, no. 51 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1951. Pièces anepigraphes sud-arabes d’Aden. Le Muséon, 64: 157-176. |
Jamme 1955 a: 126, no. 51 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1955. Pièces qatabanites et sabéennes d'Aden. Anadolu Arastirmalari, 1: 117-126. |
Jamme 1971 b: 40-41 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206497#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
ʿAlī ʿAqīl and Antonini 2007: 38, 137 | ʿAlī ʿAqīl,ʿAzza and Antonini, Sabina 2007. Bronzi sudarabici di periodo preislamico. Repertorio iconografico sudarabico. 3. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: IsIAO. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |