Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Another Property
A South Arabian Alabaster Bust of a Woman, Qataban, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
Lot Closed
July 5, 12:16 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Another Property
A South Arabian Alabaster Bust of a Woman
Qataban, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
indented at the bottom for insertion into a base, with narrow shoulders, large pointed-oval eyes inlaid in calcite, the right inlay preserved, the left one restored, grooved eyebrows, and long hair.
Height 32 cm.
probably from Hayd ibn 'Aqil, the necropolis of ancient Timna'
François Antonovich, Paris, acquired between 1964-1970
PUBLISHED
François Antonovich, Les métamorphoses divines d'Alexandre, Paris, 1996, pp. 155 (illus.) and 367, no. 155
Yémen, Au pays de la reine de Saba (catalogue of the exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe), Paris, 1997, p. 156
François Antonovich, Alexandre le Grand. Sur la route légendaire des royaumes de Saba, Boulogne and Paris, 2000, p. 31
Sabina Antonini, La statuaria sudarabica in pietra (Repertorio iconographico sudarabico, I), Paris and Rome, 2001, p. 124, D5, pl. 71
Treasures from Ancient Yemen: On the Legendary Road of the Kingdom of Sheba, c. 2009, no. 7
Museo del Instituto Biblico y Oriental, León, Spain, 2009-2020