Sampling the core of a large bronze under safelight for OSL dating at the C2RMF, Paris. The core has been sampled in two different locations: the feet and the arms. For each, several samples were taken at various distances from the bronze wall in order to check the possible effects of an airport X-ray scan during the bronze’s transportation from Sana’a to Paris. Bronze Statue of Hawtar’athat, Yemen, 1st millennium BCE, H. 140 cm (National Museum of Sana’a, inv. YM 23206). See Mille, Benoît, I. Gajda, F. Demange, C. Pariselle, Y. Coquinot, E. Porto, O. Tavoso, and Antoine Zink. 2010. “Hawtar’athat, Fils de Radaw’il Du Lignage de Shalalum. Une grande statue de bronze du Royaume de Saba’ (Yémen).” Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot 89: 5–68. https://doi.org/10.3406/piot.2010.1726..