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Ja 444
Front
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
Front
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
Left
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
Right
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
Back
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 12977/15989 |
| Notes | Former number of the Museo Nazionale Romano: MNR 121067 (Zoli-Ansaldi collection). |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure | ||||||||||||
| Material | Stone | ||||||||||||
| Dimensions | h. 23.1, w. 8.4, th. 8.6 | ||||||||||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | Complete statuette of seated woman with arms stretching out. The woman wears a long tunic folded forward with fringes. To be noticed the sproportion between the upper part (chest, shoulders, head, arms) and the lower part (legs). According to Garbini, the statuette and its inscription are a forgery, while for Jamme and Antonini they are not. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
EPIGRAPHS
| Title | Ja 444 |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language |
| Link to epigraph record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ansaldi 1933: fig. 74.3 | Ansaldi, Cesare 1933. Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. (Collezione di opere e di monografie a cura del Ministero delle colonie, 17). Rome: Sindacato italiano arti grafiche. |
| Jamme 1956 a: 67, n. 444a-b, pl. VII | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |
| Antonini 2012: 242, n. 65 | Antonini, Sabina 2012. Catalogo. Immagini funerarie. Pages 239-250 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide. |