Standing Female Figure with Earrings

XII–VIII века до н. э. · Скульптура, металл

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This elongated statuette features a short, narrow waist decorated with a relief girdle from which hang two vertical appendages. The legs are long, especially in the thighs, with the knees articulated as rounded bumps and the feet projecting forward. The legs join in the area above and below the knees. The figure’s arms are bent outward, and the hands fold inward holding an object of uncertain character. The elongated neck is marked by five downward-curving horizontal grooves. The head is an elongated oval form with curving flattened top. On it are rendered a prominent triangular nose, two oval eyes accentuated by incised lines above the brows, a horizontal groove for a mouth, which is emphasized by an upward-curving groove below it, and two tiny perforated areas at the earlobes.

This statuette of indeterminate gender differs markedly in style from the products of Levantine workshops making bronze votive statuettes during the Late Bronze Age. It may well be a votive statuette. Reported by the donor to have been bought in Tehran, it is probably of Iranian origin. However, as with all unprovenienced statuettes, close affinities with comparable pieces are difficult to define. While doubts have been expressed in the Technical Observations about its authenticity because of the nature of its surface and corrosion products, a modern manufacture has not been definitively proven. Until this question is settled, it seems advisable to place this statuette roughly in the Iranian Late Bronze or Early Iron Age between c. 1200 and 700 BCE. Stylistically unlike most Luristan bronzes, this piece may be the product of a northwestern Iranian workshop or from a still unknown area.

David G. Mitten

Гарвардские художественные музеи