Head of a Woman with an Oval Face

Description This head represents a young woman with a serious expression, which is intensified by drawn-together eyebrows and lips pressed tightly together. Traces of stucco in the eye sockets used to affix inlays have survived.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/01/2008	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2008.

Provenance Private American Collection; Royal-Athena Galleries, New York; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, November 20, 1987, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.

Credit Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster, 2007