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Female Votive Figurine of Anat
Syrianearly 2nd millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age (MB I/II A))
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This solid cast bronze figurine served as votive offering and is surely Anat, a fertility goddess who is the sister and consort of Baal.
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Details
- Title: Female Votive Figurine of Anat
- Creator Nationality: Syrian
- Date Created: early 2nd millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age (MB I/II A))
- Physical Dimensions: w5.9 x h19.5 x d3.25 cm
- Type: figurines;votive images
- Rights: Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A. P. Fund, 1972, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: bronze
- Provenance: James Bomford Collection, Wiltshire, England [date and mode of acquisition unknown] ; Walters Art Museum, 1972, by purchase.
- Place of Discovery: Levantine (in present-day Syria)
- ExhibitionHistory: Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001
- Artist: Syrian
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