A Sabaean Alabaster Relief Head of a Man, Southern Arabia, circa 3rd/1st Century B.C.

with mouth drilled at the corners, straight nose, and large wide-set eyes, the short hair roughly worked.

Donald E. Willcox (d. 1974), London, acquired in the 1960s in the Hadhramaut, probably at Sanaa
then by inheritance to the present owners

Donald Willcox graduated from the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester with a qualification in Estate Management. He was employed by the Colonial Office as an Agricultural Officer first in the Somaliland Protectorate in the late 1950s, then in Arabia until Yemen gained its independence in 1967. He then returned to the United Kingdom and worked as a producer and presenter at the BBC before moving to the BBC World Service, where he reviewed new products and inventions. His last job before retiring was that of a Press Officer for the National Farmer's Union at its Headquarters in London.