Group of Two Human Figures

The figures of this group are very flat and more angular than other examples of this type, which has been attributed to North Syria and the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BCE. Even though the couple is made of arsenical copper, which would be appropriate for a Bronze Age date and is typical of other such joined figures, it has several unusual traits and may well be modern.

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, with metal analysis.

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