Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

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Property from the Collection of the late Antonin and Christiane Besse

A South Arabian Limestone Figure, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.

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Property from the Collection of the late Antonin and Christiane Besse

A South Arabian Limestone Figure

3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.


standing with extended forearms, and wearing fragmentary bronze bracelets, the eyes with drilled pupils under grooved eyebrows.

Height 13.5 cm.

reputedly from Beihan, probably from Hayd ibn 'Aqil, the necropolis of ancient Timna'
Antonin Besse (1927-2016) and Christiane Besse (1928-2021), Aden and Paris, acquired in Yemen in the 1960s, collection number CB43 (recorded for export by the Department of Antiquities, Aden State, in May 1967)
by descent to the present owner

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