A Canaanite Copper Figure of a Man or God, circa 1500-1000 B.C.

of highly stylized attenuated form, his clenched hands raised and formerly holding implements, and with cleft chin, small rectangular mouth, and enormous nose with large round eyes pierced through it, the hair falling in a wide crosshatched plait behind, and arranged in three tiers above the forehead, the lower part of the figure missing.

Gottfried Friederick Reber (1880-1959), Lausanne, acquired in 1928

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, 1946-2006

Dietrich Opitz, “Altorientalisch Altertümer der Sammlung G. F. Reber in Lausanne,” Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 7, 1931-1932, pl. between pp. 232 and 233
Helmuth Th. Bossert, Altsyrien, Tübingen, 1951, p. 41, fig. 595, illus. p.183

As shown and described. Generally very good. There is a slight vertical crack at each shoulder above the armpit, but there does not seem to be a repair there. Some surface wear and encrustation.
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Cf. Bossert, op.cit. figs.592-594; another closely related example is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 32.18.4.

The museum inventory number “Inv. Dep. R.1946.48” is written in white ink on the back of the neck.