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| Keywords: South Arabian - Head of a Woman - Walters 2121 - Three Quarter.jpg The locks of hair on each side of this three-dimensional head indicate that it represents a woman Similar female heads were produced from the 1st century BC through the 1st century AD in Hayd ibn 'Aqil the cemetery associated with Timna'-the capital of the Qatabanean kingdom The sculpture originally had inlaid eyes and brows as well as painted plaster additions to the hair century 1 BC calcite-alabaster cm 15 56 12 5 11 accession number 21 21 76460 Sale Sotheby's London January 23 1967 lot 87 Giraud and Carolyn Foster Baltimore January 23 1967 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster 2007 Faces of Ancient Arabia The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2008 place of origin Arabian Peninsula Walters Art Museum license South Arabian art in the Walters Art Museum Art of Saudi Arabia Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
