CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER HEAD OF A MAN
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
With a flaring neck and an oval face, the thin grooved brows arching over thickly-lidded large almond-shaped eyes, recessed and once inlaid, with a long, triangular nose, the thin lips straight, his mustache and beard indicated by three rows of stippling, the earlobes pierced, the top and back of the head roughly finished
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high

來源

Private Collection, Germany, 1975.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 2005, lot 60.

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Alabaster heads, such as the present example, unfinished on the top and back, were once fitted with plaster and set into rectangular niches high up on inscribed limestone funerary stelae. For complete examples see nos. 277-278 in Simpson, Queen of Sheba, Treasures from Ancient Yemen.

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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