Statue of a Seated Woman

Description The woman is dressed in a long garment, which covers her whole body except her toes. The shape of her stool is unusual and might have been intended to represent a folding chair. The integrated base is inscribed with the name of the female owner: Neb't of the Yger clan.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/01/2008	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

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

Provenance Sotheby's, London, between 1963 and 1971; Giraud and Carolyn Foster, Baltimore, between 1963 and 1971, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.

Inscriptions [Transliteration] Nb't / Ygr [Translation] Neb't of the Yger clan

Credit Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster, 2007