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LOT 0241
South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Man
3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
8 7/8 in. (2.42 kg total, 22.5 cm including stand).
Tongue-shaped carved bust reserved on an unworked block; bas-relief facial detailing with long vertical D-section nose, slit mouth and two shallow lentoid eyes; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenance
with Arte Primitivo, New York.
American private collection, New York, before 2000.
Literature
See Simpson, S.T., Queen of Sheba: Treasures From Ancient Yemen, The British Museum Press, London, 2002, items 126, 270, and 282, for similar portraits.
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