Figurine

Object Number:	48-2-232
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Syro-Phoenician
Provenience:	Syro-Palestine (uncertain)
Section:	Mediterranean
Materials:	Bronze
Iconography:	Male
Height:	5.3 cm
Width:	2.7 cm
Depth:	0.8 cm
Credit Line:	Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number:	223 - Collector Number L-2-41 - Old Loan Number

Description

Male figure. Patina is brown with traces of green on the head. Object is complete except for the feet. Short arms, left extended and the right hanging loosely. Both hands have holes for attaching unknown objects. Torso is long, hips flaring, and the legs shapeless. Conical head is indented at the back, towards the top. Almost featureless face is relieved by round and bulging eyes.

Bibliography:

[Book] Warden, P. G. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 68, no. A5, pl. 24	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Thesis] Moore, Charlotte B. 1969. Description and analysis of the bronze and lead objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 258-259, no. 259; p. 387, fig. 192	View Objects related to this Actual Citation