An Archaic Greek Statuette from South Arabia

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The statuette of which photographs are reproduced here was seen by Major the Honble. R. A. B. Hamilton, who writes:—

‘In January 1939 I was riding with a concourse of tribesmen past the old ruin of a fort, which lies at the mouth of the Wadi Jardan, in the Aden Protectorate: Long. 47° E.: Lat. 15^° N. A tribesman ran after our party and offered me a small statuette for sale. I asked him where he had found it and he replied that it had been washed out of the ruin by a flood the year before. He demanded Rs. 200 for it. I tried to beat him down but he refused to drop his price. There was, for many reasons, little time for argument, and I had no more than Rs. 50 of my own money with me.