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LOT 1929
South Arabian Style Stone Fragment with Inscription
20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
8 1/4 in. (3 kg, 21 cm).
Free-standing with a D-shaped cross-section; inscribed with five rows of text, possibly Sabean. [No Reserve]
Provenance
with the North Carolina Museum of Art November by 31 May 1965, GL.57.14.76.
Subsequently deaccessioned from the North Carolina Museum of Art in the 1980s, or before.
with Christie's, 12 December 1984.
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