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    • A SYRIAN BRONZE WARRIOR
    Lot 47

    A SYRIAN BRONZE WARRIOR

    CIRCA 1000-800 B.C.

    Price realised

    USD 7,800

    Estimate

    USD 8,000 - USD 12,000

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    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

    Provenance

    Atanasatanasov Collection, 1970s.

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