Human Statuette
30-47-16
From: South Arabia
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 30-47-16 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | South Arabia |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Limestone |
Description | Limestone statuette of a woman (?) Broken below the breasts. Finely modelled in the round. Heavy hair hanging behind the ears and spreading on the shoulders in Egyptian style (perhaps a wig?) and covering the forehead. Top of the head cut flat. Conventional type of face. Eyes incised and painted? Eyebrows not incised. Nose broken. Chin chopped off. Ears well cut. |
Height | 20.2 cm |
Width | 16 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Quill Jones, 1930 |
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