Sculpture art

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amare-habeo: South Arabian steleAlabaster, 1st millennium BC (20.3 cm)The stele depicts an abstract face with carved eyes, a long nose, and a small fleshy mouth; above, an inscription in Minaic gives the name of the deceased: ‘wysl’, probably equivalent to the modern Arabic name Uways.
Centuries Past
Rectangular, white limestone stela with a face carved in low relief within a coarsely, chiselled rectangular recess on one side and a line of South Arabian (Sabaean) inscription above human face, along top edge of same side; degraded chequer pattern in dull red brown paint over the flat face of the stela below the portrait. Ancient South Arabian The British Museum