A Canaanite bronze figure Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 B.C. The standing figure with bent arms extended holding two offering vessels, wearing a pleated kilt and conical hat, the face with enlarged features, the right ear with double piercing, 13cm high Fußnoten Provenance: Dr H. A. Fawcett (1891-1982) collection, UK (inv. No. RG.3.HF). Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the 1970s at Sotheby's, London. For a kilted bronze figure of similar pose, cf. O. Negbi, Canaanite Gods in Metal, Tel Aviv, 1976, p.18, pl.14, no. 161. It is suggested that the conical headgear is Anatolian in style.
A Canaanite bronze figure Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 B.C. The standing figure with bent arms extended holding two offering vessels, wearing a pleated kilt and conical hat, the face with enlarged features, the right ear with double piercing, 13cm high Fußnoten Provenance: Dr H. A. Fawcett (1891-1982) collection, UK (inv. No. RG.3.HF). Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the 1970s at Sotheby's, London. For a kilted bronze figure of similar pose, cf. O. Negbi, Canaanite Gods in Metal, Tel Aviv, 1976, p.18, pl.14, no. 161. It is suggested that the conical headgear is Anatolian in style.
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