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

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A SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER FEMALE HEAD
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) high

Provenance

James Manclark, U.K. (perhaps the British Olympic luger, b. 1939).
Property of James Manclark, Esq.; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 11 April 1960, lot 71.
with Gimpel Fils, London, acquired from the above (Sculpture from South Arabia, 1970, no. 2).
Marjorie B. Kuhn (d. 1986), Cincinnati, acquired from the above, 1971; thence by descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

For a related female head (colloquially known as "Miriam") found at Timna', now at the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, see no. 22 in B. Fowlkes-Child and M. Seymour, The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in The Ancient Middle East.

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