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Seated Canaanite
2nd millennium BCE (Middle Bronze Age)
solid-cast bronze
(Ancient Near East )
(Ancient Near East )
The seated male figure, dressed in a long cloak, clasps his hands in front of his body in prayer. The identification of the statuette as Canaanite is based on stylistic parallels with sculptures from Hazor (in present-day Israel).
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Blanchard Collection, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Admiral and Mrs. Dewitt Hamberger, Washington, D.C., by purchase [1940's]; Walters Art Museum, 1971, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 2008 | Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Measurements
4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, 1971
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.2485