This statuette is most likely to come from Timna`, the main necropolis of the Kingdom of Qatabān, on the western and southwestern slopes of Ḥayd ibn ʿAqīl in Yemen. In the 1920s it was a prominent part of the Guido Cetti Collection, which, although little known, ranks as one of the most important early 20th Century private collections of South Arabian sculpture in the round, second only to that of K. Muncherje. Later, the statuette came into the collection from the Lombard alpinist and patron Guido Monzino (1920-1988) who kept it in the Villa del Balbianello, his residence on Lake Como. At the death of Monzino, the Villa and its collections were donated to the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano.