A Canaanite Copper Figure of a Man or God, Middle Bronze Age, circa early 2nd Millennium B.C.

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Description

A Canaanite Copper Figure of a Man or God
Height 8 in. 20.3 cm.

of highly attenuated form, standing with arms extended on a high pedestal resting on a domed base, his hands holding now missing implements, and wearing armlets, his face with prominent lips, triangular nose, inlaid eyes with recessed pupils, and large double-pierced ears, his head surmounted by a high convex and knobbed protrusion and a semicircular knobbed diadem.

Provenance

Israeli private collection, acquired in the 1960s or earlier
by descent to the present owner

Catalogue Note

For related examples cf. Ora Negbi, Canaanite Gods in Metal. An Archaological Study of Ancient Syro-Palestinian Figures, Tel-Aviv, 1976, no. 70, pl. 9 (British Museum, inv. no. 117750), and 44 (French Archaeological Institute, Beirut), the latter with three knobs on the headdress.