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Miscellaneous : Middle Bronze Age Votive Sculpture
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Middle Bronze Age Votive Sculpture - FZ.182
Origin: Hebron, Israel
Circa: 2300
BC
to 1700
BC
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Bronze
$4,200.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
Since the dawn of time, mankind has offered
gifts to the gods to catch their attention and to
win their favor. This splendid, abstract votive,
dating to the age of the biblical patriarchs,
depicts a praying person reduced to his most
essential elements: two slender legs, an arm
curved reverently across the chest, a round head
with a nose and two large eyes. The splayed
weight of the foot was most likely intended to
hold the figure upright in the ground before the
shrine where the votary had placed it. We
understand instinctively--as the ancient gods
were supposed to--that in spite of his abstract
appearance, this charming figure represents a
very real person, someone with hopes, dreams
and desires not so very different from our own.
- (FZ.182)
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