CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

细节

A SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER HEAD OF A WOMAN
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
The spade-shaped face with the eyes deeply recessed for now-missing inlays, thin arching brows, a long slim nose and narrow mouth, the small protruding ears with carved detail, her chiseled hair falling to just above the chin, on a tall cylindrical neck, the back of the head and neck roughly finished, likely once set in the niche of a funerary stele
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high

来源

Walter Vahldieck, Berlin (1902-1992), a non-medical practitioner and collector of books and antiquities. In 1987 a portion of his collection was confiscated and sold by the state (DDR). His wife passed on the rest of the collection to their neighbors in Berlin. This family brought the collection to auction in 2001.
Jeschke, Greve & Hauff, Berlin, Auktion 23, Wertvolle Bücher & Dekorative Graphik, 5-8 November 2001, lot 4108 (part).

拍品专文

For a similar example, named "Miriam" by the Arab workmen at the time of discovery, see no. 270, pp. 194-195 in Simpson, ed., Queen of Sheba, Treasures from Ancient Yemen. For related alabaster heads set within inscribed stelae, see no. 277, pp. 198-199, op. cit.