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LOT 0411
Phoenician Bronze Statuette of Baal
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 in. (21.4 grams, 71 mm).
Modelled striding on an oval base, wearing a long kilt, broad collar, short wig and tall headdress, his right hand raised and touching the headdress; remains of suspension loop behind the headdress.
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p. 17, fig. 12b, for discussion and example.
Footnotes
The raised arm of this figure would originally have held a spear characteristic of Inhert.
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