Group of Four Human Figures

“Family” groups of this type have been associated with North Syria and dated to the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia BCE. None of the groups have been found in documented excavations, so there is significant uncertainty about their authenticity. This group of four figures has a close parallel in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

See:

Helga Seeden, The Standing Armed Figures in the Levant, Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung I, vol. 1 (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1980) 15-17, pls. 10-11.

P.R.S. Moorey and Stuart Fleming, "Problems in the Study of the Anthropomorphic Metal Statuary from Syro-Palestine before 330 B.C.," Levant 16 (1984) 82-83, no. 2, with metal analysis.

Oscar W. Muscarella, The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Near Eastern Cultures (Groningen: Styx, 2000) 196 no. 7.