Description:

Southern Arabia, around modern day Yemen, ca. late 1st millennium BCE. A lovely abstract anthropomorphic idol, hand-carved from a particularly well-veined fragment of lustrous white-and-brown alabaster with light inclusions. The figure is defined by delineated legs, a slightly rotund torso, angular shoulders with a bent right arm and a straightened left arm, and a stocky neck. A round head boasts recessed slit-form eyes, a slightly-sloped brow which traverses downwards to a bar-shaped nose, puffy cheeks, and full lips, all beneath a planar top with a discoid coiffure. A slender, smaller idol hangs in the middle of the chest, suggesting this figure is wearing an amulet or pendant which is depictive of another indiscernible deity. Custom museum-quality display stand included. Size: 3.375" W x 6.7" H (8.6 cm x 17 cm); 7.375" H (18.7 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Neil Phillips collection, New York, USA, acquired in the 1980s

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#139390

  • Condition: Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, losses to parts of legs, shoulder, and head, with fading to some finer details on face and chest, and small nicks across most surfaces. Nice earthen deposits and lustrous surface patina throughout.

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