A SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER HEAD OF A WOMAN
A SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER HEAD OF A WOMAN

CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER HEAD OF A WOMAN
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With long neck, arching incised eyebrows above almond-shaped eyes, inlaid with white stone, straight nose, and small pursed lips, hair falling behind prominent semi-circular ears
10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.) high
來源
Reputedly from Haid bin Aqil, cemetery of Timna (Qataban).
with Sherif Ahmed bin Awadh al-Habili, 1962.
Private collection, UK, acquired prior to 1990s; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Georgiana Aitken
Georgiana Aitken

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Timna was the capital of Qataban, which, together with Ma’in, Saba, Himyar, and Hadhramaut, was one of the five kingdoms of southern Arabia. Pliny the Elder recorded that Timna was a busy metropolis housing no less than 65 temple complexes. Its wealth was based on its monopoly of the ancient cinnamon and incense trade routes.
The area was first excavated in the 1950s by the American archaeologist Wendell Phillips, cf. W. Phillips, Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the ancient kingdoms on the Biblical spice routes of Arabia, London, 1955. For a similar example, nicknamed 'Miriam' by the workman at the time of discovery cf. St. J. Simpson (ed.), Queen of Sheba, Treasures of Ancient Yemen, London, 2002, pp. 194-195, no. 270.

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