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LOT 0236
Marlik Bronze Maternity Figure
9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (40 grams, 77 mm).
Openwork body with integral horned head, loops to the shoulders and breasts; separate arms mounted in the shoulder-rings, applied pellets and braid detailing.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1980s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12698-234680.
Cf. The Profane and the Divine. Art of Antiquity from Europe to Southeast Asia. Fleurons du Musee Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, 2008, pp.386 and 505.
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Opening Bid: £50
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Opening Bid: £333
Showing a man on a standing bull, grabbing the hair of a captive with his right hand. 84 grams, 51 mm high
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
The statuette can represent the god storm Hazor, a storm deity with lunar traits. The association between a bull and storm deities is well known on Anatolian sealings from 20th-19th century B.C. The portrayal of a god standing on a bull in conjunction with lunar symbols derived from Old Babylonian cult, where the bull was connected with the Moon as a goddess, and continued in the Near East in association with the god Hazor, identified with El, head of the Canaanite pantheon.
