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2,200-year-old Yemeni bronze statue to be auctioned at Bonhams in London next month
Locals| 11 November, 2024 - 1:32 AM
Yemen Youth Net - Special
A 2,200-year-old Yemeni bronze statue will be sold at Bonhams auction on December 5, 2024 (Abdullah Mohsen)
Yemeni researcher Abdullah Mohsen revealed that "a Yemeni bronze statue will be displayed at the famous Bonhams auction in London early next December," as Yemeni antiquities have been subject to smuggling and sale at auctions for decades.
He said - in a post on his Facebook page - "A bronze statue from the antiquities of Yemen, approximately 2,200 years old, was in Al-Jawf Governorate, 8 cm high and is known as the "Statue of Public Confession and Repentance."
He pointed out that "it was smuggled from Yemen in 1997 to the United States and sold at a Christie's New York auction in 1999, and became part of the collection of Alan Dershowitz and Caroline Cohen."
Researcher Mohsen explained, “A study was conducted on the statue in the German Museum about the method of casting, and it was confirmed that it was cast in Yemen, and that it is from one of the temples of Al-Jawf.”
Height 8 cm .. To be sold at Bonhams auction on December 5, 2024 AD
— Abdullah Mohsen Abdullah Mohsen (@Abdulla04050930) November 11, 2024
Bronze statue of public confession and repentance!
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The famous Bonhams auction will offer for sale, in early December, a bronze statue from #Yemeni_Antiquities , from #Al-Jawf, approximately 2,200 years old. #Abdullah_Mohsen pic.twitter.com/yzwcMRAT1Y
The study was conducted by Harald Schulz and Barbara Yandle, and published in 2012. On June 2, 2017, it was sold at an auction in London for an undisclosed price at the buyer's request, according to the researcher.
Every now and then, researcher Mohsen publishes news about the sale of Yemeni antiquities in international auctions, as the rate of antiquities smuggling in Yemen has increased during the past years of war.
In August 2023, the Yemeni government signed an agreement in Washington to protect heritage and ban the sale of stolen Yemeni antiquities at American auctions. This was preceded by an American decision banning the import and transfer of Yemeni cultural property and antiquities to it.
The sale of about 4,265 Yemeni antiquities was monitored in 6 Western countries, through 16 international American and European auctions, over about 31 years, during the period 1991-2022, according to a report issued by the Al-Hudhud Center for Archaeological Studies.
The report, entitled “Yemen’s Archaeological Memory between Smuggling and Alienation,” revealed the theft and smuggling of Yemeni antiquities abroad, and explained that “the process of increasing activity in the pace of selling Yemeni antiquities during the war period, reached 2,610 pieces, including 2,167 pieces in the United States alone.”
Its value exceeded 12 million dollars, and the matter did not stop there, as there are 7 international museums with 1,384 smuggled and stolen Yemeni antiquities, according to the report.