A 'SYRO-EGYPTIAN' BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED DEITY, wearing an ankle-length robe and an Egyptian style white crown of Upper Egypt, eyes recessed to take inlays (now missing), seated with his left hand clenched and extended right palm facing downwards in a gesture of benediction, traces of a silver overlay sheet, tangs underneath for attachment, left upper arm compressed, circa 14th-13th Century B.C.

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A 'SYRO-EGYPTIAN' BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED DEITY, wearing an ankle-length robe and an Egyptian style white crown of Upper Egypt, eyes recessed to take inlays (now missing), seated with his left hand clenched and extended right palm facing downwards in a gesture of benediction, traces of a silver overlay sheet, tangs underneath for attachment, left upper arm compressed, circa 14th-13th Century B.C.
4½in. (11.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. O. Negbi, Canaanite Gods in Metal: an Archaeological Study of Ancient Syro-Palestinian Figurines, Tel Aviv, 1976, pp. 46-49, nos. 1437-1450

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