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THBPublished Ancient Near East Basalt Bull Offering Table
Lot 62b
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Ancient Near East, Syro-Palestinian, late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. Masterfully carved from a single piece of basalt, a magnificent altar in the shape of a bull, the body assuming the form of an offering table - rectangular in form and slightly concave - supported by four low, angular legs. Note that the belly of the animal is convex and smooth. The bull's head is a prominent protuberance at one end of the table; its zoomorphic form is attractively stylized and abstract and presents an upper surface that is concave, as if it was intended to be a second smaller offering table. Altars like this example may have been associated with Teshub, the god of sky, thunder, and storms whose sacred animal is the bull. Size: 23.2" L x 11.6" W x 7.87" H (58.9 cm x 29.5 cm x 20 cm)
Published: Phoenix Ancient Art 2006 no. 1, Geneva-New York, 2006, no. 3.
Sources on works like this example:
HROUDA B., Tell Halaf IV, Die Kleinfunde aus Historischer Zeit, Berlin, 1962, p. 71, n. 131-134, pl. 53.
MERHAV R. (ed.), Treasures of the Bible Lands, The E. Borowski Coll., Tel Aviv, 1987, n. 123.
REHM E., Kykladen und Alter Orient, Bestandkat. des Badisches Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1997, p. 36, A56, fig. 56, p. 381.
Provenance: private New York, USA collection; ex private collection, acquired in early 1980s
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#162765Surface pockmarked, with tip of right back foot missing, otherwise intact.Condition
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