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LOT 0088

Phoenician Limestone Herakles Melqart Wearing Lionskin

CIRCA 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.

14 3/8 in. (1.85 kg total, 36.5 cm including stand).

Modelled in the round, standing with lionskin mantle tied around the shoulders at the chest, with girdle to the waist and knee-length tunic; left hand resting on the handle of a club; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Footnotes

Melqart was the Phoenician tutelary deity whose name means 'king of the city'; in the Roman interpretation, he was identified with Hercules.

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LOT 0088

Phoenician Limestone Herakles Melqart Wearing Lionskin

Sold for (Inc. bp): £845

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