Culture:Syro-Phoenician.
Date: 1400 - 1200 B.C. (late bronze age).
Material: Bronze.
Condition: Intact, with custom base stand.
Provenance: EX: American private collection; EX: New York art market.Measurements: 2.75 inches high, (7 cms).
This statue belongs to a seated Goddess, with her hands clasped underneath her chest, she is wearing a four section headdress. A very rare statute.
Cf: Lot 123, Sotheby's New York Antiquities and Islamic Art, 20 June 1990; plate 51, cat. no. 1651, Table 16, p. 94, "Syro-Lebanese Group", Louvre, AO.21060, Canaanite Gods In Metal, Ora Negbi.
Antiquities Ancient Near East
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