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 Alabaster Base of a Statuette, Qataban, circa 1st Century A.D.

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2,400 - 3,500 GBP

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Property from the Collection of the Late Antonin and Christiane Besse

A South Arabian Alabaster Base of a Statuette, Qataban

circa 1st Century A.D.


supporting two feet and engraved in front with the name of a woman and her lineage in two lines of South Arabic Inscription: (H)llt ḏ/t Ṯbw.

8.5 by 14 by 9.8 cm.

reportedly from Timna', 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 inv. no. CB21 (registered and photographed for export by the Department of Antiquities, Aden State, in May 1966)
by descent to the present owner

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