Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
A South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Man, Qataban, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
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July 7, 04:31 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Man, Qataban
3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
with tapering columnar neck, and long oval face with short beard, grooved moustache, pronounced cheekbones, fragmentary aquiline nose, large recessed eyes with remains of inlay, and grooved eyebrows.
Height 28.5 cm.
Sotheby's, London, July 6th, 1995, no. 259, illus.
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Galleria Serodine, Ascona, February 1996
private collection, Switzerland
private collection
Bonhams, London, July 5th, 2018, no. 164, illus.
For related heads see S. Antonini, La scultura sudarabica in pietra, Paris and Rome, 2001, pls. 99-101.