Monthly Archives: July 2010

Sabaean Alabaster Head of a Dignitary

This piece comes from the Sabaean (South Arabian) period,  2nd-1st century B.C. The head is oblong and green-beige in color and lacks eprsonal features, which is , consistent with other South Arabian figures.  The  inscriptions on the base and the fact that such figures come from necropolises  has led scholars to deduce that they were commemorative…