西亚 青铜祈愿人像 (没有保留价)

Ancient Near East, Anatolia, Syro-Hittite, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A fine gathering of two rare religious idol figures formed from bronze connected with each other. The figures , possibly male and female, stand atop an integral plinth, placing their arms around each other.
Height 65 mm, 33 g.

Bronze votive idols like these are known in a variety of fascinating forms throughout the pre-literate ancient world. From the truly abstract Kilia-type figures that are barely recognizable as human to the exaggerated feminine shapes of so-called "Venus" figures, people in the past, as today, had a clear desire to portray human forms and did not feel constrained by naturalism. Miniature figures like these seem to be portraying worshippers rather than gods, and we believe that they were small enough that, even though they were made of bronze, ordinary people could have owned them and kept them on home altars. Many people from the ancient Near East are found buried with items like these examples.

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