Description:

Ancient Near East, Syria, Syro-Hittite, ca. early 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A sizable stele of an ovoid form with a flat base, hand-carved from white limestone, with intricate anthropomorphic and zoomorphic depictions in low relief. The planar base flares outward and turns into sloping walls that meet above the center with a lightly rounded tip. The obverse displays a stylized male figure seated in a simple chair, wearing an ankle-length gown, and holding a drinking horn in his left hand with his arm outstretched to a phoenix standing atop a petite table. The table is supported by three legs in an open tripod, and a conical-bottomed amphora - presumably filled with beer - rests underneath. A second bird seemingly rests atop the woman's head, and a winged solar disk of a typical Egyptian style is visible near the top of the relief. While the context of this stele is unknown, it could perhaps depict a seated lord or god enjoying a quaff of drink or regular man performing his daily task of drinking. Size: 10" W x 13.875" H (25.4 cm x 35.2 cm).

Provenance: private J.H. collection, Beaverton, Oregon, USA; ex-Malter Galleries, Inc., Encino, California, USA

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#149614

  • Condition: Nicks and abrasions to base, obverse, peripheries, and verso as shown, with softening to some low relief details, and light encrustations. Nice earthen deposits throughout.

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