Stele with a Schematic Face in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019

Stele with schematic face, early 1st century


Object Details

Date: early 1st century

Geography: Southwestern Arabia, Timna'

Medium: Limestone, pigment

Dimensions: H. 6 × W. 8 7/16 × D. 2 15/16 in. (15.3 × 21.4 × 7.5 cm)

Classification: Stone-Sculpture

Credit Line: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of the American Foundation for the Study of Man (Wendell and Merilyn Phillips Collection), S2013.2.173


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/757639