Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 132911=1960,1212.3 |
Notes | Donated by Dr Sidney E. Croskery. Acquired by donor in Ṣanʿāʾ in 1942. |
Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body | ||||||
Material | Alabaster | ||||||
Decoration |
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Notes on support and decorations | Almost triangular-shaped head with hollowed out wide set eyes, small mouth, triangular nose, broad, flat face, thick neck. Straight in-cised eyebrows over a prominent brow ridge. Head finishing at the hairline. The head was originally set in an inscribed base or displayed inside a niche. |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Archaeological context | Funerary context |
Link to site record |
Antonini 2001: 162, pl. 109 | 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] |