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| Keywords: South Arabian - Intaglio with Birds - Walters 421513.jpg This small intaglio incised carving depicts two birds one of which sits on a basket-like nest Both figures are well carved and the composition is artistically conceived On the evidence of similar examples it appears to have been created in a Greco-Roman workshop and then imported into South Arabia by a traveler trader or other agent It is likely that the object had an amuletic as well as ornamental function century 1 AD chalcedony cm 1 2 0 8 0 2 accession number 42 1513 76498 Ahmed local art dealer Ta'izz Yemen Giraud and Carolyn Foster Baltimore 1961 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of Giraud and Carolyn Foster 2007 Faces of Ancient Arabia The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2008 place of origin Arabian Peninsula Walters Art Museum license South Arabian art in the Walters Art Museum Art of Saudi Arabia Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
