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BM 141548 E 13
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 141548=1985,0223.17 |
| Notes | Donated by D.B. Doe, MBE. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body | ||||||
| Material | Alabaster | ||||||
| Dimensions | 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. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| 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 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 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. |