Head of a Man with Long, Oval Face

6th-5th century BCE

14 cm 18.5 cm 8 cm

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The barely modeled features and the proportions of the face are characteristic of early portrait heads from Marib. Details were probably painted on. The borders of the eyes are not incised; the upper lids are executed as short ridges. Depressions represent the mouth and a dimp...

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Sale, Sotheby's, January 23, 1967(?), lot 86; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, January 23, 1967(?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.
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en
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