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LOT 0251
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.
Provenancewith Arte Primitivo, New York.
American private collection, New York, before 2000.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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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