In-Focus Tour | Ancient Yemen: Incense, Art, and Trade
Schedule
Wed Sep 25 2024 at 02:00 pm to 02:20 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20560 | Washington, DC
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Cost: Free Join our docents for a twenty-minute talk to explore the art of ancient Yemen, from fine alabaster statues to elegant architectural elements and funerary steles. These works span the second half of the first millennium BCE to the third century CE.
Image: Stela with figure of a woman above one line of inscription, Yemen, Wadi Bayhan, 3rd century BCE–mid-1st century CE, calcite alabaster, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of The American Foundation for the Study of Man (Wendell and Merilyn Phillips Collection), S2013.2.208
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Where is it happening?
1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20560Event Location & Nearby Stays:
