WESTERN ASIATIC SOUTHERN ARABIAN INSCRIBED FIGURAL STELE 2nd century BC-2nd century AD The top of a rectangular limestone stele with stylised human face carved in the half-round; lentoid sockets for separate inlaid eyes, keeled triangular nose, D-shaped bilinear ears; below, remains of a South Arabian abjad script text, probably the name of the deceased. 4.2 kg, 22cm (8 1/2"). Fair condition. Provenance Private collection, Cambridgeshire, UK; acquired prior to 2000.
WESTERN ASIATIC SOUTHERN ARABIAN INSCRIBED FIGURAL STELE 2nd century BC-2nd century AD The top of a rectangular limestone stele with stylised human face carved in the half-round; lentoid sockets for separate inlaid eyes, keeled triangular nose, D-shaped bilinear ears; below, remains of a South Arabian abjad script text, probably the name of the deceased. 4.2 kg, 22cm (8 1/2"). Fair condition. Provenance Private collection, Cambridgeshire, UK; acquired prior to 2000.
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