Yemeni antiquities expert, Abdullah Mohsen, revealed on Friday that a famous American museum had acquired a Yemeni statue from the fourth century BC earlier this year.

Mohsen said in a post on his account on the

He explained that the statue is engraved with the musnad on its base (Abu Yada’ Dhu Dhamr Al), pointing out that (Abu Yada’) is one of the famous names in ancient Yemen, while (Dhamr Al) is the name of a group of people, and the population groups in ancient Yemen are known as A people while others are known as tribes.

Mohsen stated that the statue was not displayed in the museum’s galleries, and the museum’s website published pictures of the statue and did not specify its source. Later, it was not possible to access the statue’s page on the museum’s website.

He pointed out that “this may be the first time that we have obtained pictures of the statue, years after the text of the Musnad inscription on its base was published, without any image, in the Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabic Inscriptions (DASI).”

According to the Yemeni expert, “The Toledo Museum of Art’s collection, which includes about 30,000 works of art, is considered among the finest works of art in the United States. The museum includes more than 40 galleries, and includes the Georgia and David K. Wells Sculpture Garden and the glass pavilion dedicated to one of the most famous Glass collections in the world".