NEX004
Syro-Hittite silver figurine of a smiting god.
Middle Bronze Age IIb: 1750-1550 BC.
H. 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Missing left foot and attributes. Incrusted with chloride.
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The god is striding with his right arm raised to smite, his left arm and his left leg set forward. He wears a tall conical crown and a folded skirt. His long hair falls over his back.
The figure is finely modeled with majestic attitude and powerful movement.
Cf. Aruz, J., et al. (Eds.), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008, p.175,fig.100.
Seeden, H., 1980, Pl. P., fig. 1808S.
Negbi, O., 1976, Pl. 27, fig. 1395.
Smiting deity,bronze, Anatolia, Hittite Old Kingdom: 17th – 16th BC, Ankara museum of Anatolian Civilizations, no. 8825.
Aruz, J., Kim Benzel, Jean M. Evans (Eds.), Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York, 2008.
Seeden, H., The Standing Armed Figurines in the Levant, C.H.Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, 1980.
Negbi, O., Canaanite Gods in Metal. An Archeological Study of Ancient Syro-Palestinian Figurines, Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv, 1976.
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