MIDDLE BRONZE AGE II, CIRCA 1700-1500 B.C.

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A CANAANITE BRONZE AND SHEET GOLD SEATED DEITY
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE II, CIRCA 1700-1500 B.C.
4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Rafi Soleimani, Teheran, prior to 1977.
Dr Giancarlo Ligabue (1931-2015), acquired from the above.

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Please note that the second line of provenance for this lot should read: 'Rassla Foundation, Zurich, Dr Giancarlo Ligabue (1931 -2015).'

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Lot Essay

For a similar figure in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, cf. O. Negbi, Canaanite Gods in Metal, Tel Aviv, 1976, pp. 46-49, fig. 130, no. 1440. Seated gods such as this are believed to represent El, the head of the Canaanite pantheon who was the subject of widespread worship in the Levant during the later second millennium B.C.

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