This piece comes from the Sabaean (South Arabian) period during the 2nd-1st century B.C. It stands 23 centimeters high and is whole with its brake at the nape of the neck.
The head is oblong and green-beige in color with no personal features displayed, consistent with South Arabian figures. The presence of inscriptions on the base and the fact that they come from necropoleis has led scholars to deduce that they were commemorative portraits that were placed close to tombs. The inscriptions refer to the name of the represented figure and to his clan.
This statue belongs to the “Middle Period” which was at the same time, approximately, as the Hellenistic Greek period.