A SYRIAN BRONZE WARRIOR
CIRCA 1000-800 B.C.
Depicted standing with his feet together, the arms bent at the elbows and held forward, each fist perforated for now-missing attributes, wearing a high, tiered conical headdress, a belted patterned kilt and sandals, a dagger suspended diagonally from the belt, his oval face with the eyes deeply recessed, one preserving the remains of a white inlay, with a prominent nose, straight mouth and thin beard, a tenon below the feet for insertion
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high excluding tenon